Oct 26/28 Introduction to Stress & Health Lab (correlational) –lab completed in partners (due Nov16/18) Introduction to SPSSwin spss assignment (due next week) –assignment completed individually hand back www/variables assignments

Stress and Health Lab Due: Nov16 (A), Nov 18 (B/C) “I’m an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened” –Mark Twain Stress -commonsense definitions,dictionary definitions,formal scientific definitions Selye: stress, like relativity, is a scientific concept which has suffered from the mixed blessings of being too well known and too little understood (1980, p.27)

Stress and Health Lab Due: Nov16 (A), Nov 18 (B/C) Investigating the relationship between the amount of stress experienced by university students and their rates of illness positive relationship between the amount of daily stressors experienced by an individual and their rate of illness theoretical background Selye (1976) General Adaptation Syndrome –alarm stage –resistance stage –exhaustion stage

Other Models of Stress Diathesis-stress model Psychodynamic theory Learning theory Transactional theory Social stress theory Control theory Holistic health theory

Stress and Health Lab Full APA format Lab report due (1 report/pair) Title page Abstract Introduction Method Results Discussion References Figure Caption page, Figure

Stress and Health Lab Title page (use an original title) Abstract words include: –problem under investigation (in 1 or 2 sentences) –participants characteristics: #,type, age, sex –experimental method; test names –findings, stats, including significance levels –e.g. r (20)=.85, p <.05 or p=.025, M, SD –conclusions, implications Title page (use an original title) Abstract (wait until the end – words –should contain –problem under investigation (in 1 or 2 sentences) –participants characteristics: #,type, age, sex –experimental method; test names

Stress & Health Lab Introduction –use minimum 3 articles, find one yourself –Selye’s theory, discuss another –Investigating the relationship between the amount of stress experienced by university students and their rates of illness –positive relationship between the amount of daily stressors experienced by an individual and their rate of illness

Method See lab handout Participants, Materials, Procedure Put in your own words do not need to put copy of questionnaire in appendix Results data file will be mailed to you this week see APA manual for correct statistical format means, standard deviations (M, SD) to 2 decimal places spearman’s correlation coefficient r s, support hypothesis? significance level see example p.104, table p introduce figure

S&H Lab; Next week Analyses Discussion References Figure Caption Figure

Introduction to SPSSwin follow then try yourselves SPSS assignment - due next week

Descriptive stats for SPSS assignment Part 2 Use data from Clement Motjuwadi’s Acadia M.Sc. Thesis 1993 Stratified sample of black South African youth during apartheid: age p_power, injustc, frnd_sup, fam_sup, fear

SPSS assignment Part 2 Variables to describe (1) Demographic information –age ( age) (2) Personal Power ( p_power, ) O’Neill, et al.(1988) ( 3) Injustice scale ( injustc, ) O’Neill et al.(1988) Perceived Social Support: (4) Family ( fam_sup) (5) Friends ( frnd_sup) (6) Fear Survey Schedule (revised) ( fear)

SPSS assignment Part 2 Descriptive statistics For all 6 variables, print out means, SD, range, minimum, and maximum Print box-plots for each (all 6) Correlate all 6 variables with each other - use both Pearson’s and Spearman’s coefficients Pick one pair of variables and create a scatterplot of the relation between them –Note any differences in the output from these two methods