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Running head: Stress in College Athletes and Non-Athletes
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Stress in College Athletes and Non-Athletes
Stress in College Athletes and Non-Athletes
Lakisha Camacho
PSYC104v01 or v02: Introduction to Psychology II
Dr. Pipitone
College of Mount Saint Vincent
February 24, 2019
Our group decided to focus on the stress of college student-athletes and non-athletes. Stress can be defined as emotional levels that affect an individual's mind conflicting with different circumstances. Stress can lead towards all different aspects to affecting an individual such as social ability, injuries, academics, diets, responsibility, etc. As athletes ourselves, we understand the struggle of student-athletes, and how difficult, it is to participate in a sport and handle outside responsibilities. From going to classes all day, being able to eat and running to your game/practice right after class, or missing class due to a game becomes a hardship to student-athletes. From being student-athletes, we would like to understand if athletes versus non-athletes a major difference have when it comes to stress in college. However, non-athletes can also have stress from outside factors like jobs, if for their families, clubs, and transportation needs. Student's athletes and non-athletes create a sizeable comparison between each other because it includes an abundance of factors that display similarities and differences regarding their own stress levels.
The transition from high school to school may be nerve-wracking for any student, however recent proof suggests that athletes could expertise even larger levels of stress thanks to the twin demands of athletics and teachers placed on them throughout their freshman year. Stress has been outlined because the negative feeling that happens once a private feel unable to deal with the stress placed upon them by their setting. For the matriculating freshman student-athlete, these demands could sometimes appear overwhelming. There is a necessary to spot specific sources of stress that considerably have an effect on student-athletes that will disagree from those practiced by the normal non-sport university student. This can be true for the school freshman student-athlete who is facing multiple new challenges arising from athletic, educational and social demands. Several freshmen student-athletes are unprepared to with success cater to these stressors, and information regarding those specific factors resulting in heightened stress levels is crucial within the designing of effective intervention programs. Hence, the aim of this beta study was to spot those stressors known by Division-I freshmen athletes as most current throughout their 1st semester in school. The participants during this study were female and male freshmen students at a private Division-I Midwestern university. Participation during this study was voluntary, and participants were recruited from a needed freshman general education category at the top of their initial semester of school. The participants ranged in age from seventeen to thirty-four and were classified as athletes and non-athletes. Athletes were thought of as collaborating on an intercollegiate varsity athletic team. Every participant scan and completed a consent type before this study and was hep that their responses would be confidential. We assessed varied nerve-racking events specifically headed to varsity students’ lives. The purpose of this exploratory study was to assess the differences in the types of stress that athletes and non-athletes experience. We found that athletes differed in a variety of ways from their non-athlete counterparts.
Recent information indicates disturbing trends in health issues in faculty students during this country. additionally, there's concern that athletes could also be additional in danger surely health issues than are different student populations. we tend to survey male and female athletes and non-athletes to match the prevalence rates of alcohol behaviors, smoking and smoke-free tobacco use, and disordered eating behaviors and body image discontent. We tend to find that these behaviors are different from each gender and athletic standing. However, the patterns aren't consistent, with athletes being additional vulnerable surely risky behaviors and non-athletes being more vulnerable for others. moreover, these patterns additionally disagree by gender. faculty directors must remember of varied} vulnerabilities that various populations face and be ready to handle different problems and treatment plans for male and feminine athletes and non-athletes. We surveyed 506 students at a large, Division I university in the Pacific Northwest: 206 female non-athletes, 106 male non-athletes, 106 female varsity athletes, and 88 male varsity athletes. Approximately 90% of participants were Caucasian. Non-athlete participants were all students of Psychology 101 and received course credit for their participation in this study. This course is needed for all majors, and therefore assured a large style of majors and sophistication evils would be depicted. Athletes we tend tore surveyed in team conferences or practices assuring that we might get all students on the groups. We used three different materials amongst the two different groups. The first was Alcohol consumption, where we asked the participants three questions: for them to indicate the frequency of drinking, the frequency of drinking until intoxication, and how much they drink per drinking occasion on both an average weekday and an average weekend day. The second material was smoking. Here we asked the participants to indicate how many cigarettes on average they smoked per day and whether they have used smokeless tobacco in the last year. The last one was, Disordered eating and body image dissatisfaction. We asked the participants questions from the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) related to a preoccupation with food, eating, and weight. The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of gender and athletic status on alcohol consumption patterns, use of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, and disordered eating and body image dissatisfaction. We found that by examining differences in the overall scores, we also classified students as eating disordered or not eating disordered based on the established cutoff score for the EAT-26.
We will be researching two questions for our topic. The first question is, do non-athletes succeed more academically than student-athletes? This will be studied through our first article because it explores effects that D1freshamn college students deal with their academics and sports teams, and for those who are non-athletic. Their findings explore many different types of topics that will increase the stress in an individual. The second question is, do student athletes struggle more emotionally and physically than non-athletes? We will study this through the second article because it explores the relationship between all different aspects to stress that affects an individual such as social ability (risky behaviors) and diets. This will be reviewed and the studies that are provided will help apply it to difficulties non-athletic and athletic students have. This paper will also help with conceptualize the link between the stress of non-athletes and athletes and the measurements of their risky behaviors. The framework provided will help me determine the different data collected based on the different stress levels.
References
Pritchard, M. E., Milligan, B., Elgin, J., Rush, P., & Shea, M. (2007, March). Comparisons of Risky Health Behaviors between Male and Female College Athletes and Non-athletes. Retrieved January, from http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol9Iss1/HealthPDF.pdf
Pritchard, Ph.D., M., & Wilson, P.E.D., G. (2007, March). Comparing Sources of Stress in College Student Athletes and Non-Athletes. Retrieved from http://amyburris.atspace.com/StressPDF.pdf
Annotated Bibliography
Research Topic: Stress in College Athletes and Non-Athletes
Our group decided to focus on the stress of college student-athletes and non-athletes. Stress can be defined as emotional levels that affect an individual's mind conflicting with different circumstances. Stress can lead towards all different aspects to affecting an individual such as social ability, injuries, academics, diets, responsibility, etc. As athletes ourselves, we understand the struggle of student-athletes, and how difficult, it is to participate in a sport and handle outside responsibilities. From going to classes all day, being able to eat and running to your game/practice right after class, or missing class due to a game becomes an hardship to student-athletes. From being student-athletes, we would like understand if athletes versus non-athletes a major difference have when it comes to stress in college. However, non-athletes can also have stress from outside factors like jobs, if for their families, clubs, and transportation needs. Student's athletes and non-athletes create a sizeable comparison between each other because it includes an abundance of factors that display similarities and differences regarding their own stress levels.
Pritchard, M. E., Milligan, B., Elgin, J., Rush, P., & Shea, M. (2007, March). Comparisons of Risky Health Behaviors between Male and Female College Athletes and Non-athletes. Retrieved January, from http://www.athleticinsight.com/Vol9Iss1/HealthPDF.pdf
· Explores the relationship between all different aspects to stress that affects an individual such as social ability (risky behaviours) and diets. This will be reviewed and the studies that are provided will help apply it to difficulties non-athletic and athletic students have.
· This paper will help me conceptualize the link between the stress of non-athletes and athletes and the measurements of their risky behaviours. The framework provided will help me determine the different data collected based on the different stress levels.
Pritchard, Ph.D., M., & Wilson, P.E.D., G. (2007, March). Comparing Sources of Stress in College Student Athletes and Non-Athletes. Retrieved from http://amyburris.atspace.com/StressPDF.pdf
· Through this study, it explores effects that D1freshamn college students deal with their academics and sports teams, and for those who are non-athletic. Their findings explore many different types of topics that will increase the stress in an individual.
