Stress Coping Orientation, Stress & Coping On UWB's Campus

The period of transition from high school to campus life can be a difficult one. For many, this is the first time living away from home. For others, the new and heavier academic demands can be especially challenging to handle. For others still, the social conditions in college may be difficult to adjust to. This is to note that the process of orientation may bring a great deal of stress that requires an effective coping strategy. Experiences with stress and coping are highly individualized. This observation underscores the strategic and methodological imperatives driving the present investigative study.

Rationale for Chosen Strategy:

The strategy for determining how well different students cope with the stress of orientation at University of Washington, Bothell Campus will require the selection...

This variable will have a relationship to the dependent variables of stress and coping. Drawing an empirical connection between these variables should help us to determine how well one student adapts to campus life vs. another.
We are aided in this process by the study conducted by Luthar et al. (2000), which offers 'resilience' as a usable independent variable. According to Luthar et al., "resilience refers to a dynamic process encompassing pos- itive adaptation within the context of significant adversity. Implicit within this notion are two critical conditions: (1) exposure to significant threat or severe adversity; and (2) the achievement of positive adaptation despite major assaults on the developmental process." (Luthar et al., p. 543)

Rationale for Chosen Method:

In order to identify the presence of resilience in…