Stress And Mood

Abstract
Work and relationships have an affect on a person's over all well-being.   They can cause high levels of stress and very content moods.   If stress is built up over time and people are always in bad moods, a person health could be in danger.   We set out to test that work situations would be more stressful and put people in a worse mood then relationships conflicts.   Participants were 42 undergraduate students (33 female, 9 male) enrolled at Sacred Heart University.   All participants were put in either a work or relationship scenario.   They then filled out a questionnaire.   The results did not support our hypotheses; the levels of stress and mood were about the same.   Overall there were high levels of stress and very content moods when put in uneasy predicaments.  

Stress & Mood:
Work Experience and Personal Interaction

Stress and mood are influences that affect the average college student.   Relationships influence physical and mental health (Berry and Worthington, 2001), as well as an over-abundant amount of work, and trying to manage time due to role and work overload.   Role theory says that inter-role conflict and tension (or stress) often results as individuals find it increasingly difficult to successfully execute each of their roles because of constrained resources (e.g. time, energy) (Bolino and Turnley, 2005).   For example, after working all day and coming home to a substantial amount of homework and studying, on minimal sleep, due to staying up all night to prepare for a test early in the morning prior to work.   This has a factor on the amount of stress because many things are going on.   People worry about their school grades or even their jobs due to financial needs; it can be quite the buildup of stress.   Since stress and mood are very important to an individual's health, there have been many studies to test how work and relationships affect a person's well being.   This research has shown that role overload has as affect on stress (Bolino...