Title page (1 page).
- INTRODUCTION (1.5 pages) – importance of topic, background articles (MINIMUM OF TWO research articles (journal articles) described, including how they are relevant to your project and support your idea,
You
MUST draw from past research on stress when picking your activity (i.e., you
must find at least TWO research studies that suggest that what you will do will
work), possible obstacles and how you will overcome them, purpose of study, and hypotheses clearly stated. - METHODS (1.5 pages)
- Participants (who they were, how many, how they were recruited)
- Materials and measures (what tools did you use, cite published scales, if you made up a scale, how did you do this, etc.) If you used observation, what coding procedure did you use?
- Procedure – how you did your intervention/project in detail
- RESULTS (1.5 pages)
- A description of your approach to analyzing your data – how will you know if you got your intended effect? This can be statistical or based on the directions of the findings (estimated differences between groups or before/after an intervention)
- Findings of your study including a MINIMUM of one figure or table showing the results and descriptive data (e.g., group averages, before/after scores). If possible, include a statistical test and the meaning of your results. Finally, interpret your findings, but do NOT inject your opinion yet until the discussion section (i.e., did you find what you expected?)
- DISCUSSION (1.5 pages)
- Brief summary of your study findings and if your hypothesis was confirmed
- Whether your work matches past research and theory
- Practical implications of your work – how does this apply to the real world?
- Future directions – what can you do next based on your findings? What should others do?
- Limitations – what did you do wrong? What would you have done differently? Were there problems with your study? Can we generalize your findings? Can we improve them? MUST DISPLAY CRITICAL THINKING HERE.
- REFERENCE SECTION
- Minimum of two references and citations to any materials you used (e.g., scales that are published)
- Any cited material should appear here (websites, books, etc.)
- TRACKING SHEET
- This should include your three days of tracking your stress levels, along with the seven days of your intervention
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Include your three-day stress
level tracking sheet – you will track your levels of stress over the course of
three days. Required information on this tracking sheet includes the day, your average
level of stress, significant stressful/restorative events that happened that
day, and other contextual factors (where were you? who was around you? how were
you feeling?)
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