Patterns and Implications of full time and working Students
Open Access
Author:
Carlson, Arianna
Area of Honors:
Letters, Arts, and Sciences (Abington)
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type:
Thesis
Thesis Supervisors:
Dr. Jacob Arthur Benfield, Thesis Supervisor Dr. David E Ruth, Thesis Honors Advisor
Keywords:
life satisfaction college students commuting part-time job time stress
Abstract:
With increased rates of tuition, increased rates of depression and anxiety, academics, part-time jobs and commuting, college students have a lot demands on their time and energy. A study was created to see the effect of these characteristic in a college student’s life on happiness and stress levels. An online survey was distributed to 82 (41 female) college students to ask them various questions about their daily schedule and how it affects them. After running regression analysis on the responses, it was found that individual’s perspective on how certain activities will benefit them in the future had more of an effect on stress and happiness than how much actual time was spent on school, commuting and part-time jobs amongst college students.
