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Lindenwood University

Journal

2009

GPA

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Comparison Of Gpa Between Students Involved And Uninvolved In A Relationship, Jessica M. Vaeth Nov 2009

Comparison Of Gpa Between Students Involved And Uninvolved In A Relationship, Jessica M. Vaeth

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

College is a journey full of living, failing, learning and experiences that brings an individual a little bit further along life. In today’s society, relationships are existent in many universities, and some students may be faced with that exact same dilemma. I decided to do my research project on a comparison of GPA between students who are in a relationship and those we are not. A relationship is defined as follows: a romantic, committed bond between two people for a minimum of a month. I assessed this information by distributing a 10 question survey to 92 undergraduate college students. After …


Does Hard Work Pay Off?, Channon Chazelle, Kristen Gravlin May 2009

Does Hard Work Pay Off?, Channon Chazelle, Kristen Gravlin

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

The purpose of this study was to determine if relationships exist between a student’s level of work ethic, whether or not he or she pays for school, and his or her GPA. The participants were 83 undergraduate students from Lindenwood University’s Human Subject Pool, Plato’s Closet, and various colleges in the St. Louis area. To study this relationship, a survey was administered inquiring about the participants’ opinions towards working, their GPA, and amount paid for school. Upon analyzing our data, no strong relationships were found between level of work ethic and amount paid for school or GPA and amount paid …


The Dangers Of Facebook, Daniel Chionuma May 2009

The Dangers Of Facebook, Daniel Chionuma

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

Social networking sites have been around for a long time but just recently, within the decade, they have been experiencing exponential growth. Facebook is the media’s leading social networking site and it is dominant among today’s youth. In the present study, 91 participants were asked a variety of questions in order to assess the kind of impact Facebook had on an individual’s GPA. Facebook usage and GPA was shown to have no correlation, rs=.035. The findings were due to lack of control throughout the experiment and an insufficient amount of participants.


How Do You Compare? The Correlations Of Social Desirability And Self-Esteem As Well As Social Desirability And Self-Consciousness, Kristy Johnson, Kristy Myers May 2009

How Do You Compare? The Correlations Of Social Desirability And Self-Esteem As Well As Social Desirability And Self-Consciousness, Kristy Johnson, Kristy Myers

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

In the present study, 81 participants were asked to self-report their levels of self-esteem and self-consciousness using Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale and Fenigstein’s Self-Consciousness Scale, respectively, as well as report their current semester GPA in order to study the correlations between these variables and the variable of GPA inflation. There was no significance found for the correlations between the level of GPA inflation and experimental condition, between GPA inflation and self-esteem, or between GPA inflation and self-consciousness for the 35 participants with obtainable GPA’s. However, the present researchers did find significance in the correlation between inflated GPA and self-consciousness for the …