Literature Review 2

                                            

Daphne E. Petersen is an associate professor currently teaching at the University of North Dakota with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and the Psychology of Health. Her extensive psychology background will be useful in analyzing the underlying mental health effects of privatization in college students.


Pedersen, Daphne E. "Stress Carry-Over And College Student Health Outcomes." College Student Journal 46.3 (2012): 620-627. ERIC. Web. 4 Mar. 2014.


Pedersen's article "Stress Carry-Over And College Student Health Outcomes" examines the way that one stressor may be transferred to other aspects of that individuals life. She states that "the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood is a time of great change, and often, of great stress," (Pedersen 620) and cites multiple areas of stress in a students life, workload, social obligations, and family relations. However, and important and reoccuring theme that Pedersen addresses in the beginning of her article is the "subjective" nature of stress (Pedersen 620). For each person stress comes from different outlets and is experienced in very different ways. The particular framework of the article is of stress "carry-over" where "the experience of stress may spill from one domain or role to another, one person to another, or across stages of life" (Pederson 621). This has been evidenced in the case study provided by Hamilton and Armstrong in their analysis of dorm resident, Alana, and appears across much literature available on student stress. 

This article further expands the "carry-over" framework by distinguishing two specific categories of carry-over: school-spill over and family-spill over (Pedersen 623). School spill-over involves the inability to maintain an even balance between school and other aspects of life. Some students may feel that they can not have a social life due to the capacity of their school work-load, or may feel that they are unable to maintain family ties due to the same reason. Similarly, family spill-over refers to the idea that one is not able to reach their full academic and/or social potential because of family interference. Both of these ideas refer back to concepts discussed in some of my other sources, but which do not have a term for this phenomenon. This article will be useful in contextualizing several articles from the New York Times which cite examples of stress in multiple areas of a students life but which do not give a framework with which to contextualize this phenomenon.