The topic is how personality and social connectedness relate to psychological stress with respect to adjustment in the first year of university.
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2. The assignment is “Assignment 2, Part 2: Lab Report”. Please read it carefully. Also, you can check the attachment “BESC1123_Lectorial_2.pptx” to get more information. In addition, The topic of your writing is decided by you.
3. The attachment “Results_Handout-2018-Updated1009.pdf” is the result of online survey for you reference. You need to analyze this aim( see it below) through the data in pdf. In other word, your work is the research report.
4. The aim of this study is to explore how personality and social connectedness relate to psychological stress with respect to adjustment in the first year of university. You should utilise BOTH of the below hypotheses. You will also need to select one of the Big-5 traits for hypothesis 1 (H1).
H1 YOUR CHOSEN PERSONALITY TRAIT will have a positive or negative relationship with student stress.
H2 Social connectedness will have a positive or negative relationship with student stress.
Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that the hypotheses and research question are consistent with correct APA style. You will need to determine the direction of the predicted relationships (i.e. you must choose either positive or negative) in your hypotheses and rephrase them correctly where necessary. See Findlay (2015, p. 62) for further information about appropriate ways to state hypotheses.
Our study will involve a partial replication of the method of Schofield et al. (2016). We will also be using a measure of personality, specifically the five-factor model. You will receive more information on this in the ‘Method handout’ and in lectorials. By completing the questionnaire yourself you will have an important opportunity to engage with psychological research as a participant.