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Group #: 43
Your Name: Partner’s Name:
Your SID: Partner’s SID:
Task #1:
List the 3 strategies that you personally use to reduce stress in life. Pick one and
evaluate its effectiveness:
1.Listen to Music
2.Drink Tea
3.Chatting with friends
Choose one of the above strategies and explain its effectiveness of stress reduction:
Drink Tea
Drinking tea is proven to lower cortisol level which is a stress hormone in the body
Tea consumption can aid recovery from stress through psychoneuroendo-crine and
inflammatory pathways (Andrew Steptoe et al., 2006)
Elf iodine, Amino acid found in tea, helps induce a calming sensation over the body
List the 3 strategies that your partner adopts (no need to evaluate effectiveness):
1.Social support
2.Afternoon nap
3.Time Management
Task #2:
We broke down Task #2 below for you. Discuss with your partner each part and list
the main points for each part in point form:
a) Identify 1 way that you heard is an effective way of reducing stress but neither you nor your
partner have tried (or use consistently):
Doing Yoga
b) Describe what it is and explain why it is effective (you may list the research findings/articles
that you plan on using but it’s not required for this Outline):
c) Consider 2 barriers people commonly have in adopting this stress coping strategy and suggest
ways to overcome them.
Group work requires planning and coordination between partners on various tasks.
Please list your agreed work allocation and internal deadline(s) of your group paper:
Work allocation:
1. Trend and background research
2. Scientific study research:
-Effectiveness
-Barrier 1: busy lifestyle and its recommendation
-Barrier 2: costly tuition fee and its recommendation
-Incorporate the strategy into our daily life
2. Grammar checking
Did you and your partner reach consensus about the above outline, work allocation
and internal deadline?
Yes / No