Research Reflection: Workouts, Stress and GPA

What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?
– Would regular workouts reduce college related stress and help increase a students GPA?
What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?
– I am looking to observe whether or not regular workouts can affect, r increase, a students GPA.
What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc)
– I would use experiemental, however correlational can work as well.
What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)
– Survey can suffice with this experiement, however experimenting and using naturalistic observations can help further aid in producing detailing results.
If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?
–  Although it is not completely necessary in this experiment, the independent can be the GPA and dependent can be amount of workouts.
Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find.
– I hypothesize that frequent workouts would infact help relieve stress and keep one healthy.  Therefore, a students GPA would be increased.
What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?
– Students who have collegiate stress can benefit.  If my hypothesis is correct, then working out can be an alternative to other tasks of stress relief and thus would increase GPA.
Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?
– Some challenges that were faced are that it would be difficult to accumilate a large amount of people for the study.  Also, students in this study might cut out time for studying to perform these workouts.  This experiemnts would be slightly more difficult than i expected as i mentioned some reasons before.  In addition, my initial question addresses more than one question which can be split into two separate experiments.