Literature Review Blog #2

2. Citation:  

Pedersen, Daphne E.1. "Stress Carry-Over And College Student Health Outcomes."

College Student Journal 46.3 (2012): 620-627. OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W.

Wilson). Web. 3 Mar. 2014.

  

3. Summary: 

"Stress Carry-Over And College Student Health Outcomes" is an article relaying a study that Daphne conducted. The study was testing her theory that family domains have an effect on stress in college for students. She then continued to examine the relationship between these two things and mental and physical health outcomes. She concluded that male and female college students  have differences in the ways they experience stress, although there are some similarities, and at least one mental and physical health outcome is accompanied by this stress.

4. Author: 

The author of this article is Daphne Pedersen. Pedersen received her Ph.D., and she went     to Utah State University. She currently works as an associate professor and researcher at North Dakota University. She studies gender, work and family, social psychology, and sociology of health. She is very knowledgeable on my topic of stress in college students because of her research in psychology.

5. Key Terms:

One key term in the article is stress carry-over, which means that stress may be brought upon one aspect of your life from another. In this case, the author uses family domain as what triggers the stress that gets carried over to college. Another key term in the article is gender because Pedersen mentions the significance of gender differences on how much stress a college student experiences.

6. Quotes

"The current study contributes to the literature on college student stress by utilizing a carry-over perspective to examine cross-domain spillover and mental and physical health outcomes. Taking questionnaire data from a sample of college undergraduates (n = 268), spillover from school and family are examined" (1).

"From a stress "carry-over" perspective (Thoits, 1995), the experience of stress may spill from one domain or role to another, one person to another, or across stages of life. Strain at home may lead to stress in school; stress felt by one roommate may increase the demands felt by another; and stressors felt during college years may influence health later in life, for example" (1).

"Findings indicate that men and women report higher school than family spillover, and women report higher average spillover from school than men. Regression models show that both men and women report more days per month of poor mental health when school spillover is high, but whereas school spillover is negatively associated with sleep hours for women, it is family spillover that shares a negative association with sleep hours for men - despite similar levels of family spillover reported by men and women. Poor physical health, drinking, and binge drinking were not significantly associated with spillover measures for this sample" (1).

7. Value

This article definitely helps me to explore my research question because it is yet another study to contribute to my paper. The study that this article explains shows how college may not be the only thing that is causing a student stress, because they may be carrying stress over from their home or something else related to that. Not only does it bring this concept up, but it also brings up the idea of gender differences, which seems to be a reoccurring theory for stress in college students that I have seen through my research. This article would definitely be great support for my research paper.