DISCUSSION

Previous studies have claimed that doing active art could affect an individual’s
perceived stress level of himself. However, it has not been fully backed up with
statistical data. Based on the Pearson’s r Correlation, the two values (31.40 as
mean & 12.564 as standard deviation) has a weak positive correlation.
However, the significant 2 tailed test results to a value highly greater than 0.05,
which is .152. This means that the value is not statistically significant. In the
present study, results led to the conclusion that there is no significant
relationship between one’s perceived stress level and his time in doing active
art, which made the researchers reject the alternative hypothesis and accept
the null hypothesis.

The researchers assume that there are other external factors that possibly
affect a student’s perceived stress level considering that these individuals also
involve themselves with other activities outside of active art, such as sports
and other recreational activities.

Limitations have also been identified by the researchers. The first one involves
the general fact that majority of students’ time is reserved for accomplishing
academic tasks. The second limitation of the study points out to the limited
population of the respondents, which are among the 1st Year Psychology
students of Xavier University only.

For further studies, researchers have identified areas of improvement. In the

survey questionnaire (see Appendix B), the asked number of hours spent in
doing active art is in the form of a range where the respondents will freely
choose the box corresponding to what fits best for them. Upon interpreting the
data, the researchers found that this method was inconvenient because it
could result to scattered data. The present researchers suggest that the future
researchers do not use ranges in obtaining the number of hours spent in doing
active art.