Topic: Exploring the Impact of Academic Stress on University Students’ Psychological Well-being.
Assessment Objective
This assessment aims to enhance students’ understanding of how academic stress affects the psychological wellbeing of university students, linking key principles of Work Health and Safety (WHS) with mental health and wellbeing. This task will also help students develop skills in data collection, analysis, and report writing, similar to realworld workplace health and safety management practices.
Assessment Description
In this individual project, you will explore the impact of academic stress on the psychological well-being of
university students by conducting primary research. This involves performing a thorough literature review to
identify recent and relevant scholarly sources. You will collect data through surveys, analyze the findings using
basic statistical techniques, and write a structured report of 2000 to 2200 words, incorporating at least 6-8 recent
and relevant scholarly references.
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• Explain the importance of psychological well-being in higher education.
• State the significant of your research i.e. why this research is important, and clearly state your
research question or objectives.
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• The Relationship Between Academic Stress and Psychological Well-being
Assessment Task: Assessment Explain how the survey was designed and distributed for data collection
• Mention the number of participants and any relevant demographic information.
• Presentation of results as tables and graphs
• Discussion of findings.
• Use WHS principles to guide your discussion.
• Suggest practical ways to reduce academic stress.
• Link recommendations to your data analysis.
• Link recommendations WHS principles where appropriate.
• Use Harvard Referencing
• Content Quality (including research depth and critical analysis) – 40 marks
• Data Analysis & discussion – 25 marks
• Recommendations – 25 marks
• Writing and Referencing – 10 marks