Immigration And Stress Essay
Introduction
Stress can affect people in many ways. Environment can play a role in how someone deals and handles stress. Changing environment can also cause stress. For immigrants, they must adapt to a new way of living. They have to adapt to many new things such as education, language, and immigration status. With all this change how are stress levels affected? Knowing all this the question arose how much stress are immigrants under in the United States?
Literature Review/Theory
Throughout history people fear what they do not understand or know. For many immigrants, this is no exemption. Many are migrating to have a better life and opportunity. That being said there is a fear amongst immigrants in the United States. There is a long history of tension between Americans …show more content…
Knowing my demographic confidentiality is a must. I want the participants to be honest and feel comfortable. I would conduct a case study survey with my participants, this will allow me to collect data quickly and will allow me to get a large amount of information. I will have 50 participants, male and female. The age of the participants will vary from 18 to 50. I will ask each participant to fill out a survey, each survey will have 20 questions related to stress levels. The question format will be in a scale form ,1 being the least stressful 5 being the most. Questions will be based on cultural, emotional, and educational adjustments to list a few.
Hypothetical Data Presentation/Findings
According to the surveys it appears that the average rating for the 50 participants is 3.5. Meaning they view themselves above average in stress levels. Another interesting find was that the stress levels of the younger population was higher than the average of the older population. This could mean a couple of things. I believe it is a sign that the parents are putting a large amount of pressure on their children to succeed because of the sacrifices they made.
Future
Stress can affect people in many ways. Environment can play a role in how someone deals and handles stress. Changing environment can also cause stress. For immigrants, they must adapt to a new way of living. They have to adapt to many new things such as education, language, and immigration status. With all this change how are stress levels affected? Knowing all this the question arose how much stress are immigrants under in the United States?
Literature Review/Theory
Throughout history people fear what they do not understand or know. For many immigrants, this is no exemption. Many are migrating to have a better life and opportunity. That being said there is a fear amongst immigrants in the United States. There is a long history of tension between Americans …show more content…
Knowing my demographic confidentiality is a must. I want the participants to be honest and feel comfortable. I would conduct a case study survey with my participants, this will allow me to collect data quickly and will allow me to get a large amount of information. I will have 50 participants, male and female. The age of the participants will vary from 18 to 50. I will ask each participant to fill out a survey, each survey will have 20 questions related to stress levels. The question format will be in a scale form ,1 being the least stressful 5 being the most. Questions will be based on cultural, emotional, and educational adjustments to list a few.
Hypothetical Data Presentation/Findings
According to the surveys it appears that the average rating for the 50 participants is 3.5. Meaning they view themselves above average in stress levels. Another interesting find was that the stress levels of the younger population was higher than the average of the older population. This could mean a couple of things. I believe it is a sign that the parents are putting a large amount of pressure on their children to succeed because of the sacrifices they made.
Future