Project Title
SHAPE Approach to Wellbeing Workshop
Description
The purpose of this project is to measure the stress, coping and wellbeing process of students who have attended the SHAPE approach to wellbeing workshop. The SHAPE approach to wellbeing is based on research findings from the theory of wellbeing PERMA (Seligman, 2011) and Revised Transactional Theory of Stress and Coping (Goh et. al., 2010). It is a model for maintaining health wellbeing through adjusting one’s immediate Surrounding, personal Health, engagement in daily Activities, one’s Perception of self and environment, and one’s Emotions. Hence the acronym SHAPE.
The workshop offers participants key information about SHAPE’s impact on wellbeing, experiential learning activities and self-reflection to help them plan out strategies for monitoring and improving personal wellbeing. This workshop will run for 3++ hours.
The SHAPE approach to wellbeing workshop aims to empower participants in active management of their wellbeing and stress as a university student in a sustainable way. After attending the workshop, participants will have a better appreciation of how to adjust one’s surrounding, health, activities, perceptions, and emotions to improve general wellbeing and reduce stress level.
This project is being undertaken as part of Psychology Honours Thesis Course through the University of Southern Queensland.
Participation
Your participation will involve partaking in these 3 surveys set: pre-workshop, post-workshop and follow-up surveys. Please complete each version of the survey in one go, this will only take up approximately 15 minutes of your time each.
The survey will take place during the workshop and a few weeks after the workshop.
Questions will include:
1) You feel that you will not achieve an important goal.
2) Having the support of others.
3) I've been getting emotional support from others.
Your participation in this project is entirely voluntary. If you do not wish to take part you are not obliged to. If you decide to take part and later change your mind, you are free to withdraw from the project at any stage. You may also request that any data collected about you be destroyed. If you do wish to withdraw from this project or withdraw data collected about you, please contact the Principal Investigator (contact details in the Questions or Further Information About the Project section below). Provide us the code that you will be asked to create in this survey, and we will be able to process your request as this is the only way we can locate your data.
Your decision whether you take part, do not take part, or to take part and then withdraw, will in no way impact your current or future relationship with the University of Southern Queensland and the other universities listed in this survey.
Expected Benefits
It is expected that this project’s workshop will directly benefit you and results from this research will provide insight into the dynamics of university student’s stress and wellbeing. This will in turn assist in future interventions aim at improving the overall health of individuals. The data collected will be used for current and future analyses to address the various questions as set within the parameter of this research project.
Risks
In participating in the questionnaire, there are minimal risks such as there are no anticipated risks beyond normal day-to-day living however the minimal inconvenience of time imposition for completing this survey is expected. This survey therefore does not pose any significant distress on participants.
Sometimes thinking about the sorts of issues raised in the questionnaire can create some uncomfortable or distressing feelings. If you need to talk to someone about this immediately, please contact any of the following:
1) The Chief Investigator Dr Yong Goh at +61 7 3812 6152, email: yong.goh@usq.edu.au
2) Lifeline on 13 11 14
3) University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba Campus Psychology Clinic at Level 1 of W block, contact number: 07 46311763 / psychclinic@usq.edu.au
4) University of Southern Queensland Ipswich Campus Psychology Clinic at Building B level 2, contact number: 07 3812 6163 / pcclinic@usq.edu.au; and finally,
5) your General Practitioner (GP) for additional support.
Privacy and Confidentiality
All comments and responses are confidential unless required by law.
The names of individual persons are not required in any of the responses.
The non-identifiable data collected will be used for current and future analyses to address the various questions as set within the parameter of this research project.
Only group analyses are engaged, and results will be reported in published empirical papers from international journals. If you wish to access the results, you may email the Chief Investigator of this study.
Any data collected as a part of this project will be stored securely, as per University of Southern Queensland’s Research Data and Primary Materials Management Procedure.
Questions or Further Information About the Project
Please refer to the Principal Investigator Details below to have any questions answered or to request further information about this project.
Principal Investigator Details:
Dr Yong Goh
Email: yong.goh@usq.edu.au
Telephone: +61 7 3812 6152
Mobile: +61 417762932
Concerns or Complaints Regarding the Conduct of the Project
If you have any concerns or complaints about the ethical conduct of the project, you may contact the University of Southern Queensland, Manager of Research Integrity and Ethics on +61 7 3470 4611 or email researchintegrity@usq.edu.au. The Manager of Research Integrity and Ethics is not connected with the research project and can address your concern in an unbiased manner.
