Wednesday, February 15, 2012

2nd blog post

i found a really interesting article about stress and how it affects african american college students in a predominately white school. It is an academic journal. It is by Tawanda Greer and Porschia Brown and the title is Minority status stress and coping processes among African American college students. The article was is basically about how african american college students cope with stress in the type of environment that they are in which is a predominately white school. the stress levels are also compared to african american college students who attend a HBCU. Of course, the ones that attend the HBCU had lower stress levels than the ones in the predominately white schoools. there was also an experiment conducted amongst 207 students from both types of schools. They were used to see how their stress levels correlate.  I know realize that I would like to talk about how stress affects college students in every aspect. I might just stick to african americans or minorities and talk about the stress factors in the home, work, social, and school environments. Im not sure if  I should narrow it down some more due to the fact that its a very broad subject. But, then again, they all tie together and are all important elements of stress.

1 comment:

  1. I would think focusing on college students is narrow enough, and will be even narrower if you focus on African Americans or minorities in general.

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