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).
You can order this through the Rutgers Libraries website. Meanwhile, you should do a lit review on an article or book that you have access to and have read. There are many things out there on the topic of "student debt" and "anxiety" or "depression."
ReplyDeleteThere is an interesting article online regarding the way many students try to ignore their debt:
http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2013/01/debt.aspx
I think that is more the angle that fits with the Vampire Effect. It begins with denial (though "denial" is, unfortunately, not a great search term).
This online article links to several studies, which you could then read via the Rutgers Libraries website (just use the title to search for it by title on the main page of the libraries site):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/the-mental-and-physical-toll-of-student-loans/385032/
Also: work on using proper MLA citation form. In the citation information you give above, you leave out the authors (which should come first), you treat the journal title as the article title, you treat the article title as the journal title, and you don't properly include the other vital info according to MLA rules.
An interesting article I just came across speaks to the ways that student debt is a "dirty little secret" that nobody likes to talk about:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/ripping-off-young-america-the-college-loan-scandal-20130815
But because we are not talking about it, we are setting up young people for misery.