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No chill : Heat-related student stress in varied classroom occupancy

University of British Columbia. Campus and Community Planning

Our group did a study based on the research question “How does classroom occupancy influence students’ well-being during extreme summer weather?” We initially hypothesized that higher occupancy classroom on campus will have greater negative impact on students’ well-being. We used a within-in-subject design and measured participants' well-being in five aspects (anxious, hot, stressed, comfortable, and relaxed). We got 90 participants who answered the survey and one-way repeated ANOVA revealed a significant main effect of the room occupancy on the perception of anxiety, hot, stress, comfortable, and relaxed levels in extremely hot weather. Our results strongly supported our hypothesis, and 110 (44% occupancy) was a cutoff point where there was a significant increase or decrease depending on whether it is a positive or negative aspect. Therefore, we came to the conclusion that universities should limit the room occupancy to 110(44%) during extreme heatwave conditions in summer, and cooling Interventions could also be a potential resolution. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”

Report

eng

2023-09-07

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/85846

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/