Lit Review #2

Literature Review Blog #1 For the Lit Reviews, write a brief review of at least one scholarly book or scholarly article you plan to use for your project. Ideally, this should be a source you think will be very important for your project. Your review must include the following in order to get full credit:


(1) Visual. A picture of the book or (only if such a picture is not available or if it is an article) a relevant picture, such as a photo of the author or something related to the subject. An embedded video (such as of an author interview) can also fulfill this requirement.




(2) Citation. Provide full citation in MLA format.

(3) Summary. Provide a brief summary as to what the reading is about.

(4) Author(s). Give some information on the author(s). What makes him/her knowledgeable on the topic?

(5) Key terms. Define at least two key terms or key concepts used in the piece.

(6) Quotes. Give three quotations pertaining to your topic, with page reference.

(7) Value. Explicitly explain how this material helps you to explore your research question.

Literary Review Blog #1

Literary Review
DISCLAIMER: this article only allowed me to view the abstract and a few pages because it is locked and I need to purchase it to view the rest.  However, I feel it is too significant to ignore so I will probably end up purchasing it because it really helps me with my claims.  My topic might end up being how debt effects the mental state of students.  


(1) Visual:












(2) Citation:
 "Journal of Further and Higher Education." Student Debt and Its Relation to Student Mental Health: : Vol 28, No 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2016. 


(3) Summary:
This scholarly article talks about how high and low debt impact the mental health of undergraduate students who have debt while they are in college.  The study was done on students who were currently in school using a General Population version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation.

(4) Author(s):
The author is Richard Cooke, who is a member of the Psychological Therapy Research Centre in the School of Psychology in the University of Leeds.  Working in a psychologist lab would hopefully make him credible enough to conduct this study. 

(5) Key terms:
-anticipated debt: debt that students will have to pay in the future.
-financial concerns: the amount of importance placed upon the debt of a student. Could be low or high.

(6) Quotes:

 "In all three years students with high financial concerns felt more ‘tense, anxious or nervous’, more ‘criticised by other people’ and found it more ‘difficult getting to sleep or staying asleep’ than students with low financial concerns." (Page 1)

"There was also evidence that students with high worry about their debt anticipated leaving university with higher amounts of debt than low debt worry students." (Page 1)

"Students who were identified as having high financial concerns possessed significantly worse CORE-GP scores than students with low financial concern in all three years of university." (Page 1)


(7) Value:
This research is really valuable to me because it provides solid research study results that will allow me to prove my claim that debt causes mental issues for the students.  It is especially important because it was done on students who were currently in college.  

Another source I plan on reviewing is (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01421590801953000).

Blog 3: Sources

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629610000184

This journal talks about how debt is linked with mental stress and depression. It might allow me to narrow down my topic because it focuses on the medical aspect of debt.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0309877032000161814

This journal links specific student debt with mental health.  It is very interesting to see how there might be actual concrete proof of mental issues connected with debt.  

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025619611610574

This journal is similar to the previous one, but it also talks about other effects that financial strain might have on students.  For example, isolation, suicide, and relationship issues. 

I will work on finding more sources for my topics.  All of the journals were found using Google Scholar.

Scouting the territory: blog 2

      I will still be using the vampire effect idea for my topic.  However, I am still unsure how to narrow down my topic since there are so many different directions that I could go. At first I was going to deal with the social aspect of the vampire effect, but then perhaps I will mention the economic aspect as well. I also found some movies/articles that would help me compare my ideas to scary movies and themes. 
     Online I was able to search up an article that you (professor) had kindly provided me with.  "Monsters and Mortgages: The Horror Movie as a Prime Economic Indicator" talks about how we are able to feel anxiety during scary movies because we are used to feeling the same anxiety for debt.  It is so interesting how something like money scares so many people.  I looked up the emotional effects of debt, and it didn't surprise me that anger and depression accompanied debt.  There are a lot of discussions online that outline the mental aspect of debt, which perhaps I will use in my paper.  I also looked up social isolation and underachievers in case I want to focus more on the social aspect of the Vampire effect. 
     I found an article called "Psychological factors in consumer debt: Money management, economic socialization, and credit use" that I plan on analyzing more to see if there is any information I can use.  Another article, "Debt and distress: Evaluating the psychological cost of credit" also seems interesting.  I will also use the "Paying for the Party" article in order to get more information about how to narrow down my topic.  
     An issue that seems important about this topic is how much psychological damage debt might do to the human brain. It is interesting seeing the scientific aspect of this research. Perhaps I will take a more medical approach to this topic. I still have yet to narrow my topic. 
     A resource I found was an article called "Student debt and its relation to student mental health."  (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0309877032000161814)
This article talks about how the amount of debt that a student takes correlates with how much he or she worries about it.  This is really interesting because it may mean that students have more control over their debt that they think.  
     Another link I found (https://studentloanhero.com/featured/debt-mental-health-are-student-loans-making-you-depressed/) talks about how debt can cause depression in students.  This is interesting to me because depression is so prevalent in our society, and perhaps if debt could be lessened, so could the depression.   
     There are not many controversies around my topic. However, as of now, I have 2-3 ideas of the direction I want to take my topic. If I focus only on the social aspect of the vampire effect, then perhaps I could argue that it goes both ways.  However, I could also focus on how anxiety from horror movies and debt are similar, or even the medical aspect of debt and how it affects the actual health of people.