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Travis Brown

Stressed Upon Student Athletes

Stress is a state of mental or emotional tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. Stress has been shown to negatively affect physical health, mental processing, and emotional well-being. Research has shown a unique contribution of stressful events on collegiate athletes as compared to traditional undergraduate students. Collegiate athletes experience a wide range of stress because of the demands of their sport which affects academics, well-being, and athletic performance. College athletes have significantly less time to work on academics due to year-long training (in and out of season), tight scheduling, traveling, tough competition and lack of down time. Learning to cope with these additional stressors is important for the collegiate athlete’s well-being and performance.

PSY 499, Senior Capstone

Nani Skaggs

L203

9:30 – 10 AM

Jordan Bennett, Tamara Brown & Gabrielle Stover

Incentives in the Classroom

Junior year in the Education program at NCU requires students to spend 90 hours per semester observing classrooms in their perspective grade levels. Our time in the classroom has shown us the effectiveness of using rewards as an incentive. We found that teachers who focus on and actively reinforce classroom management techniques are the ones who really see an improvement in behavior among students. Incentives hold a great power in driving students towards achieving things they didn’t believe possible and for that reason, we see rewards as a very valuable tool within the classroom.

EDUC 321

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Travis Brown, Samuel Eymann & Allyssa Mittleider

Correlation Between Stress and Illness

Stress and illness are two social factors that affect everyone’s daily life. In our study we looked at how these two correlate with one another by constructing a questionnaire with specific questions relating to stress and illness. It is expected that the questionnaire will reveal information that each participant, who has been sick within a the month prior to taking the questionnaire, will have written about or marked events as “stressful” that they have experienced with the month prior as well. The answer will correspond with each other in such a way that it exemplifies the illness leading to stress.

PSY 350

Nani Skaggs

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM