Basic Statistics Mini Project

Basic Statistics Mini Project Research Title: The relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and emotional stress among students in a college in Kuala Lumpur.

Demographic Questions
Gender: Male / Female
Age: ?
Course: ?
Staying at college hostel? Yes / No.
Are you satisfied with e-lectures? Very satisfied / satisfied / neutral / dissatisfied / very dissatisfied
1. How many hours on average do you study in a day?
2. How many hours on average do you sleep in a night?
3. How often do you exercise? Always / Usually / Sometimes / Never
4. How many hours on average do you look on the screen?
5. What type of assessments would you rather prefer during this e-lectures? Live discussions during e-lectures / Weekly tutorials / Assignments / Tests / Final Exams

Descriptive Research Questions
1. What is the percentage of male and female respondents in this study?
2. What is the average time spent looking on the screen?
3. What is the percentage of respondents’ satisfaction towards e-lectures?
4. What is the percentage of respondents’ satisfaction towards assessments?
5. What is the emotional stress level of the respondents? Very mild: 0 - 16 / Mild: 17 - 32 / Moderate: 33 - 48 / Severe: 49 - 64 / Very severe: 65 - 80

Inferential Research Questions
1. Is there a relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and emotional stress?
2. Is there a relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and studying hours?
3. Is there a relationship between emotional stress and sleeping hours?
4. Is there any relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and sleeping hours?
5. Is there a difference in emotional stress between male and female students?

Transcript

1. Research Title: The relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and emotional stress among students in a college in Kuala Lumpur.
2. Introduction • Independent variable: Time spent looking on the screen • Dependent variable: Emotional stress • Population: College students • Sample: 66 college students (n≥30) large sample • 5 descriptive research questions • Section A: Demographic Question • Section B: Emotional Stress Test • 5 inferential research questions
3. • The survey is created, because the college is close due to the coronavirus pandemic. • Therefore, the education system is conducted online for the health safety of the students. Reason for this Survey?
4. Section A: Demographic Question
16. Section B: Emotional Stress Test
17. 1. I forget easily. 2. I struggle to focus well. 3. I think too much. 4. I worry too much. 5. I cry easily. 6. I get angry easily. 7. I find things unable to accept easily. 8. I feel like being left out. 9. I prefer to be on my own. 10. I feel headaches often. 11. I feel neck pain / back pain / muscle cramps often. Using the scale to rate: 0 = Not at all / 1 = Rarely / 2 = Occasionally / 3 = Often / 4 = Mostly 12.I have problems with diarrhea or constipation. 13.I have problems with nausea and dizziness. 14.I feel chest pain often. 15.I have frequent colds or flu. 16.I tend to eat too much or too little. 17.I tend to sleep too much or too little. 18.I tend to stay away from others. 19.I tend to procrastinate or neglect responsibilities. 20.I have nervous habits, such as nail biting or walk very fast.
19. Inferential Research Questions
20. Q1. Is there a relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and emotional stress? • Yes, the respondents spent 7.90 hours on average to look on the screen in a day with the majority of five to six hours are experiencing moderate emotional stress, which is 43.9%. Chi-square
21. • Yes, the respondents spent 7.90 hours on average to look on the screen in a day with the majority of five to six hours where 4.21 hours on average to study in a day with the majority of six to seven hours are involving on looking on the screen. Q2. Is there a relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and studying hours? Chi-square
22. Q3. Is there a relationship between emotional stress and sleeping hours? • Yes, the respondents spent 7.36 hours on average to sleep in a night with the majority of eight to nine hours. • As a result, the majority of the respondents are experiencing moderate emotional stress, which is 43.9% and mild emotional stress, which is 42.4%. Chi-square
23. Q4. Is there any relationship between the time spent looking on the screen and sleeping hours? • Yes, the respondents who spent 7.90 hours on average to look on the screen in a day with the majority of five to six hours would spend 7.36 hours on average to sleep in a night with the majority of eight to nine hours. Chi-square
24. Q5. Is there a difference in emotional stress between male and female students? • Yes, the male students are feeling mild emotional stress whereas the female students are feeling moderate emotional stress. Chi-square
25. Organizing and Summarizing Data
26. 1. Gender • Mode = 47 (female) • Mean = 33 • Median = 33 • Standard deviation = 14 2. Age • Mode = 21 (age 20) • Mean = 8.25 • Median = 10 • Standard deviation = 7.7 3. Emotional Stress Level • Mode = 29 (Moderate) • Mean = 13.2 • Median = 4 • Standard deviation = 12.54
27. Analyzing Data 1. Pearson’s Correlation 2. ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) 3. Chi-Square • After conducting 3 methods, it concludes that there is no significant difference between the emotional stress levels that are caused by the hours of looking at the screen. Everyone is equally stressed.
28. Limitations • Since the college is closed, no access to IBM SPSS Statistics on the computers at the library to do the data analysis. Using the free trial version is complicated to use. • The online version is used as an alternative, because it has (1) intelligent algorithm (2) remarkable consistency (3) easy processing (4) solves problems and (5) data security. • Unfortunately, it only analyses 50 samples (75.76%), leaving 16 samples (24.24%) which are not analysed. However, most of the collected samples are analysed in general. • Since this is the first time doing the data analysis, the result of the data analysis has given a brief idea of how it works for Pearson’s Correlation, ANOVA and Chi-square when answering the inferential research questions.
29. Conclusion • It concludes that with the increase of hours staring at the screen, it will cause students to have a change in their emotion, behavior and physical state (some of them will get sick and uneasy). This will cause the emotional stress level of students to increase. • To combat and improve on this issue, lecturers can consider:  Decreasing the online lecture hours  Encouraging students to do more self-studies
30. THANK YOU