Survey Report

Mohammad Hasan Alabandi

EAP1 – Section D

Our main target was to find out why students use The Recreation Center. My hypothesis for our main goal was “students use The Recreation Center for health purposes”. After survey both SIUC American and International students, we found out that it is true that students The Recreation Center to become more healthy; in addition, we had two more additional goals. First, we wanted to know who is more interested in going to The Recreation Center. My hypothesis was that American are using The Recreation Center more than Internationals do, and students’ responses were as expected. Second, we wanted to know why students do not use The Recreation Center? My hypothesis states that students have no time to visit The Recreation Center everyday. Most students’ responses matched my hypothesis, which made it true. Me, Mohammad Solan, Larissa, and john worked on this survey together. We collected our surveys from students around the SIUC campus, The Student Center, and The Recreation Center. We ended up with 82 surveys 48 of them are males, and 34 females. 42 are Americans, the rest are Internationals. There were 10 questions in the survey. 3 of them to prove our hypotheses, and the rest were chosen to know the students’ background about exercise.
In this survey I have learned a lot about Americans students. They were more concerned about health and exercise than the students in my country; furthermore, they consider time management a very important thing in their life, and rather have a regular exercise schedule than showing up at The Recreation Center randomly.
After I finished my survey, I found that the answers I had were so general and did not focus on the survey topic. I suggest for people who want to do surveys choose more narrowed questions about the topic, and try to avoid multi-answers question because it dose not give accurate answers. When I tried these questions in my survey, most students gave me some random answers because they were confused with which answers to choose.

Survey about Exercise and Stress

LARISSA VASCONCELOS


My group was formed by me, Solan, Mohammad and John. I went to the Business building to get my surveys answered. Our research was about how American and International people feel about exercises. We interviewed 82 students, 42 Americans and 40 Internationals. Of these people, we also divided by gender; 47 were male and 35 were female. The hypothesis is Americans like and practice more exercise than people from other nationalities.

The survey shows that, in general, men are more interested in exercise than women, whether American or International. According to survey responses, for women the main reason that keeps them away from Rec Center, for example, is that they do not have a partner. On the other hand, for men, the main cause is lack of time.

This study showed us some interesting aspects such as viewpoints between men and women, and Americans and Internationals. For women, 80% of Americans chose health and relieving stress as the thing more attractive in doing exercises, against 20% that chose socializing and having fun as a main reason. The international women showed a close percentage with the same opinion, with about 87% and 13%, respectively. While for men, Americans seem divided with 59% that chose health and relieving stress and 41% thinking that the more attractive thing is socializing and having fun. When we compare them with the International ones, there is a considerable difference, where 80% chose health and relieving stress as the first reason to do exercise against 20% that chose socializing and having fun.

Finally, this research shows that, according to students, Americans are more interested in exercises than Internationals. About 79% think that Americans are more interested against 21% of Internationals.

In short, this survey was very interesting because we could have some idea about differences and similarities among men, women, Americans and Internationals. When we consider the result of the survey, I must say that I was surprised about the indexes, which indicates that Americans like more exercise than another nationalities people. My surprise can be justified by the fact that many times we created stereotypes about some people, so this survey was important to show that this stereotype is not accurate.

My suggestion for future studies is that people should interview another age bracket. So, we would to be able to compare and to know if the results would be the same.

Should University Students Do Exercise on a Daily Basis?

Larissa Vasconcelos, Mohammad Alabandi, and I are interested to know whether student do regular physical exercises on a daily basis or not. We formulated our hypothesis, “Southern Illinois university students do exercises on a daily basis“. We created a survey to interview our respondents about the topic. We found that most of Southern Illinois students agreed with the benefits of doing regular physical exercises; however, more than a half of the respondents do not do exercises on a daily basis. It boiled down to this; the majority of the respondents were not in accordance with our hypothesis, on the other hand, there are some articles also support our initial ideas. In our survey we hypothesized that university student do regular physical exercises.

We asked 83 people in Southern Illinois University Student Centre, 35 women, and 48 men. We discovered that the American student do regular physical exercises more than international students. Most of the students agreed that regular physical exercises are important. Moreover, some students do not do regular physical exercises because they do not have time. We found that 9% only go to the gym every day. Our results hold up our hypothesis, and I wish this information could help many people to understand the ideas behind our hypotheses. We made 10 questions for 83 people, and, we collected within one week. Our questions will help us to give clear picture of Southern Illinois university student exercises. We met eighty people in SIU Student Center. We interviewed some of them, and we asked the other to fill out our survey; however some people refused to fill our survey

In our survey, we found that the main reasons that keep students away from recreation center are that they do not have time because they have full schedule. Some of them said they do not like to go to the recreation center without friends which main friends are supporting each other to do a sport. 53% said they have no time to go to the recreation center, and, 21% said that they only like to go to the recreation center with friends. The interesting point was from people who are less 22 years old; they have less time than the people who are over 22 years old. I think this is because people under 22 years old have more classes than people over 22 years old. We found that the results are not supporting our hypothesis; Southern Illinois university students do exercises on a daily basis. Interestingly enough, the majority of the respondents do not do daily exercises. Most of the respondents agree that the exercises are beneficial for them, but only a few numbers of them are actually doing regular daily exercises. The most interesting result is that the majority of our respondents know that physical exercises are important for their health and success; however, we found that only a few students do exercises in a daily basis. We found that the main cause that prevents them from doing physical exercise is time constrains. I think that the students need time management courses. For example, when students get time management courses, at that time they will be able to manage their time in appropriate way in order to have some time to do physical exercises.

I think the project was successful because we learned how to work as team, and how to share knowledge with each other. Moreover, it gave us more experience to do a professional research paper in the future. Also, we learned how to interview with different nationality students. For example, I was shy away from talking with foreign people; however, after this survey I learned how I could talk with foreign people very well.

The project would be better if we do it in different universities in order to know more about the students who do physical exercises. We would ask more students, and we would use a phone survey to get more information and to practice speaking with native speakers. In this project the time was not enough to discover more opinions.

Exercise and Stress - Survey

EAP1 - Core
Larissa Vasconcelos

Our research was about how American and International people feel about exercises. We interviewed 82 people, 42 American and 40 International. Of these people, we also divide in gender: 47 were male and 35 were female.
The survey shows that, in general, men are more interested in exercise than women, whether American or International. According to survey responses, for women the main reason that keeps them away from Rec Center, for example, is that they don't have a partner. On the other hand, for men, the main cause is lack of time.
This study showed us some interesting aspects such as viewpoints between men and women, American and International. For women, 80% of American chose health and relieving stress as the thing more attractive in do exercises against 20% that chose socializing and have fun as a main reason. The International women showed a close percentage to the same opinion, with about 87% and 13%, respectively. While for men, Americans seem divided with 59% that chose health and relieve stress and 41% think that the more attractive is socializing and have fun. When we compare them with the International ones, there is a considerable difference, where 80% chose health and relieve stress as the first reason to do exercise against 20% that chose socializing and have fun.
Finally, this research shows that, according to students, American are more interested in exercises than International. About 79% think that American are more interested against 21% of International.
In short, this survey was very interesting because we could have some idea about differences and similarities among men, women, Americans and International. When we consider the result of the survey, I must to say that I was very surprised about the indexes, which indicates that American like more exercise than another nationalities people. My surprise can be justified by the fact that many times we created stereotypes about some people. So, this survey was important to show that this stereotype is not accurate.