Interesting and timely project. Did Dr. Wilson teach you guys regression interactions (because I know we don’t cover that in 360)? Sorry it wasn’t significant, but that’s impressive!

This was a very interesting subject to choose for your project, especially for current life circumstances. It is unfortunate that no significant conclusion could be made on this topic because the concept could be so beneficial to the improvement of the well-being of online college student. Do you think this kind of moderator would exist continuously over a long period of time or would the necessity of a social buffer decrease as the amount of time spent in online schooling increased and became more familiar? Great job on the project!

HI! Thank you so much for sharing your research. Even though your research found that the relationship between social buffering and attention was not significant, if the sample was larger and more diverse it could prove to be beneficial. I also really enjoyed your poster I thought it was laid out well and easy comprehend. Great job!

Interesting topic, sorry it didn’t work out as you had predicted. Nice job on your poster and your individual “elevator” talks.

Good job guys! It’s unfortunate that you did not get significant results, but it was still an interesting study. I would be interested to see how the results change with a large sample size.

Hi guys! I am sorry that your results were not significant. I thought your project was really interesting. I had never really heard of social buffering before but I thought it was interesting that it could lower anxiety in social settings. I personally have a lot of anxiety when I have to talk to people alone so I really enjoyed learning a little bit about this topic.

Hi everyone! Great job on your research presentation! I liked the idea that you guys tackled and while the results weren’t significant, you guys still opened up a door to more research towards this topic. I especially liked how you pointed out what else could’ve been a factor in your study so that the results would’ve maybe been significant. I enjoyed learning about your presentation and your poster was really simple to follow and understand.

I think it is interesting that you conceptualized mindfulness as the outcome variable in this study. My 491 team did many studies on mindfulness and we generally conceptualized it as a predictor variable. I am not surprised that you found it was related to anxiety. It is hard to get regression interactions so with your small n I am not surprised it was not significant but it was a good project and ambitious to do a regression interaction!

This was a very interesting and seemingly novel concept for an experiment. I myself had preciously never heard of “social buffering” and found it quite surprising that you were unable to find a significant relationship between these three variables.

Like everyone has previously mentioned, it might be worth it to replicate this study with a much larger (and much more diverse) participant pool. I wonder how this study would translate to an older population of people that have been impacted by Covid in some of the same ways that younger adults have (staying at home, unable to see friends or family with perhaps little to no knowledge of how to use technology to “stay connected”).

Great job!

I really like how this study was approached. Although your results were not significant, it opens the door for further research, especially if this is replicated with a larger sample size and more participant variability such as age, race, and gender. Great work!