Research Blog #7: Frame
The following concepts and theories are what I will be using to make sense of my project and structure my paper:
Anxiety: the
overarching theme of my project is the impact of anxiety on students, I want to
know why anxiety has become the number 1 complaint among college students and
has held this spot for over 6 years. I want to know whether the privatization
of higher education is the main contributor to this mental health crisis and
whether or not universities are doing enough to combat this issue.
Privatization: This
is another important concept for my project because, as we have been discussing
in class this semester, the shift of public to private has caused a spike in
tuition. I will be looking at whether this spike is correlated to the spike in
anxiety.
Student Debt: This
is one of the possible reasons for this spike in anxiety among college students
that I will be looking at. It is one of the main reasons I will be focusing on
because it takes privatization into account, the main reason so many students
are in debt are because of the steadily increasing tuitions over the years that
is caused by the privatization of higher education. As scene by the results of
the "Sick of Our Loans" study which indicated that student loans are
associated with poorer psychological functioning.
Academic Pressure:
This is another theory for the increase in anxiety, I will be looking at how
the pressure to succeed and the high grade expectation can be leading to more
stress. That because of the highly competitive economic environment of today,
there is an added pressure for students to do well in order for them to be
scene as valuable in the job market. I will be using the Beiter et al (2015)
study to analyze this theory.
Technology Related
Anxiety: This concept looks at how over the generations with the rapid
development of technology, current students have become dependent on social
technology and that this dependency has made them unequipped to handle the
social pressures and responsibilities of college. I will be using the study "Is Facebook
creating "iDisorders"?" to illustrate this concept of how social
media may be linked to increased anxiety.
Age of Anxiety: This
argument poses the theory that anxiety isn't only an issue for college students
but has increased worldwide, and that societal changes have caused people to
generally be more prone to anxiety now then they were previously. I will further
develop this argument using the article "The age of anxiety?".
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