Observation : 
As an avid follower for the past many years, I've been witnessing the games from the psychological POV and it has been a revelation. More often than we do realise, football keeps the world hooked week in week out contrary to the scoreline. And this is due to the unpredictable nature of a world class league like the English Premier League. At the highest level, there is no bad/weak teams, every team is capable of winning with the right approach. 

Justification :
There's often many many outcomes that channel the David vs Goliath theory. A season is usually 38 games long and a team can dominate the charts for 30 weeks and bottle it within the last 8 games as the pressure mounts and the one who doesn't succumb to pressure and who never gives up on the hope ends up winning. Its never over till its officially over. There are instances of team scoring 3 goals in the last minute to overturn a 2 goal deficit. In sports,  every 30 seconds is a long time! 

Contribution:
to evolve the most watched sport in the whole world. THe sport has evolved in the last 100 years drastically, that the legends of the game are becoming more and more impossible. There was a time it was between Maradona and Pele, it was just about speed and technique to be a superstar, then came the era of Ronaldo and Zidane, It started including flair and aggression. and then we are in the twilight years of Cristiano and Messi. where they became football gods and never quite fulfilled the GOAT debate because they were so complete looking at their peak, they had the speed, technique, dribble, game reading, vision and both knew their purpose is to be the world best by competing with each other. and now we are almost achieving superhuman footballer, with strength , speed, stamina, technique, and most importantly mentality and leadership. This is very evidential through the next goat debate will be between Haaland and Mbappe. its gonna be a  topic between sheer mentality monsters and ego along with the different of peak human performance. 

Hypothesis

Psychological factors significantly influence the performance and results of football players beyond their skills and talent.a

The data collected during the study can be used to either accept or reject the null hypothesis in favour of the alternative hypothesis, providing evidence for the influence of psychological factors on performance.

Methodology

Key findings

3). the reason why i choose this topic because there a lot cases nowadays that make students lost control when they play it game and affecting their academic performance, then i believe this research is very important because it will help determine how to treat someone who affected their academic performance and how to prevent mobile gaming addiction in the first place. 

4). Research question
How do students perceive the impact of compulsive gaming on their academic performance?

5). for the methodology this research would be conducted with full qualitative design that interviewing 8 participants to both gender who is currently studying and 18 above to 25 years with 8 research questions and will be recorded, the target would be 6 mans and 2 girls who frequently playing game and would be taking time for 45 minutes for 8 questions and each data will be analysed by thematic analysis. 

6). the possible findings for this research :
1.  the impact of compulsive gaming to academic performance 
2.  lack of control 
3. the reason someone can have gaming addiction 
4. prevent and risk of compulsive gaming in academic performance 

a) To explore the students' relationship with social media and their usage

b) To look into how they manage their studies based on their social media usage

c) To explore how social media impacts the students in their academic careers and learning

3. In addressing the rise of social media use around the world, I wanted to investigate the potential impact it has in the education sector and on students in their development in the light of their academic pursuits.

I also hope that the paper would be able to offer perspective and awareness into the rapid new age technology and social media usage, as well as how the knowledge in seeing the rise of these aspects can help in better equipping educational institutions and students alike in seeing social media as a tool, through programs, to help better their academic journey in the future.

4. Research question: How do young adults' experience of social media use impact their academic performance?

5. Methodology:
- The research design is qualitative
- There are a total of 8 participants, 4 women and 4 men, aged 19-35 years old, either still studying in school or has been a recent school graduate of 1-2 years.
- Data is collected strictly through a semi-structured interview with audio recording.

6. The possible findings I may get out of this is that while social media offers opportunities for academic growth and to be better informed through self-learning, it may not have enough impact to say that it has been a positive influence in the academic context.

The influence of perceived parenting styles on self-esteem of young adults. 

Poor self-esteem among young adults poses a great challenge, which parenting styles can influence. 

Aims: 

The study aims to investigate how different parenting styles (such as authoritative, authoritarian and permissive) are associated with self-esteem levels in young adults. By analyzing this relationship, the research aims to determine whether certain parenting styles have a significant impact on the self-esteem of young adults.

Additionally, to assess the long-term effects of parenting styles on self-esteem in young adulthood. By examining the long-term effects, the research seeks to shed light on the lasting influence of parenting practices on self-esteem development beyond earlier developmental stages.

3)Contribution:

This project is important because understanding the influence of parenting styles on self-esteem in young adults contributes to our knowledge of lifelong development and psychological well-being. It provides insights into how early experiences within the family environment continue to shape individuals' self-perceptions and emotional well-being in adulthood. 

4)Hypothesis:

Null Hypothesis : There is no significant relationship between perceived parenting styles on the self-esteem of young adults. 

Althernative Hypothesis : There is a significant relationship between the perceived parenting styles on the self-esteem of young adults

Participants were 100 students from various universities in Singapore. The young adults selected for the study still reside with both their parents while those residing with a single parent were excluded.

Measures being tested: perceived parenting style using the PAQ and self-esteem using the RSES

The PAQ consists of 30 items that measure three dimensions of parenting styles. Participants rate each item on a Likert-type scale, indicating the extent to which the statements reflect their parents' behaviours or attitudes. They answer the same questionnaire twice in total, once for each parent.

The RSES is a 10- item scale that is widely used measure of global self-esteem. Participants responded to each item using a four-point response scale (1=strongly disagree; 4=strongly agree).

Instructions to complete the 3 questionnaires will be read to every participant before the administration of the questionnaire and informed consent will be obtained from the participants. The questionnaires will be administered in a quiet room. Data will collected and coded anonymously. 

Data will be analysed using excel.  Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, and skewness can be used to calculate descriptive statistics. These statistics help summarize the sample characteristics and provide an overview of the distribution of variables, including parenting styles and self-esteem scores.

Correlation Analysis: Excel's CORREL function to calculate the correlation coefficients between parenting styles and self-esteem. This analysis helps determine the strength and direction of the relationship between these variables.

Regression Analysis: Excel's regression analysis tool to explore the relationship between parenting styles (independent variable) and self-esteem (dependent variable) while controlling for other relevant variables. This analysis can help identify the specific impact of parenting styles on self-esteem.

Overarching research suggests that young adults who experienced authoritative parenting styles during their upbringing tend to have higher self-esteem. The supportive and warm parenting approach, coupled with clear expectations and autonomy granting, continues to contribute positively to self-esteem in young adulthood.

Impact of other parenting styles (authoritarian and permissive) on self-esteem: Young adults who experienced authoritarian parenting styles may exhibit lower self-esteem compared to those from authoritative backgrounds.

2) Studying the effects of social media is important. It helps us to understand how it can be used in a healthy way and avoid negative consequences and mental health problems, especially among young people who rely on it a lot. This study focuses on how social media influences our mood, using a theory called "uses and gratifications." Young adults use different social media platforms for different reasons, such as entertainment, learning, making friends, expressing themselves, or getting emotional support. This study aims to understand how these reasons and other factors influence our mood when using social media.

3) Social media can cause problems for some young adults because it can negatively affect their mental health, make them compare themselves to others, and make them addicted to it. It is important for psychologists to study this to understand how it happens, create ways to help, and give advice. This helps them figure out what things make it more likely for someone to be affected, create ways to help them, and encourage them to use social media responsibly. Psychologists want to improve the mental health and overall happiness of young adults by dealing with these challenges.

4) ”. How do young adults experience different moods in social media use?" 

5) Qualitative study, Semi Structured. Participants are recruited from mutual social media connections. Participants are all young adults (18yrs - 25yrs). Collection of data is a 1 to 1 interview between researcher and participants, with a total of 10 questions for them to answer. Answers are analysed with thematic analysis 

6) Using social media can be an emotional rollercoaster, with posts and activities affecting our feelings in different ways. Positive content can uplift them, while negative ones can make them sad and other bad moods. The type of content consumed also plays a role, as positive and funny posts improve our mood, while negative content can make us angry or sad. Social media can trigger feelings of envy and dissatisfaction when we see our friends' successes and enjoyable experiences, a lot of them mentioned the term “FOMO”. Interactions and feedback on social media have an impact too, with positive reactions uplifting our mood and negative comments causing frustration. Personality traits can influence our emotional experiences on social media, with emotionally driven individuals reacting strongly to negative posts. Coping strategies like talking to someone about negative posts or taking breaks from social media can help manage negative moods. These themes shed light on how social media affects our emotions, showing both positive and negative aspects.

Sample : Male and female young adults who vapes or used to vape as well as young adults of mixed genders who picked up vaping after the pandemic with a total of 8 participants , 4 of each gender.

Data Collection : Interviews that are conducted online via zoom or video call subjected to participant’s availability lasting around 45-60 minutes.

Data Analysis : Thematic Analysis
6. Possible Findings: Young adults probably pick up vaping due to how easily accessible it is, cigarettes often leave a smell after smoking whereas vaping does not, the packaging of the e-cigarettes and flavours are attractive and they have the misconception that vaping poses lesser harm to smoking cigarettes. To those that picked up vaping after pandemic strikes could be due to, during circuit breaker or work from home, it is easier to vape at home as it does not leave any traces of smell behind than the flavoured scent the e-cigarettes give off.

b) Finding out if these individual working adults really know and understand the practice of separating their time in and out of working hours.

c) Finding out how did these individual working adults have their ways of separating work and personal life matters during the pandemic.

d) Finding out the type of challenges while practicing the separation of work and personal life matters faced by these individual working adults during the pandemic.

e) Finding out how or what these individual working adults think or feel about this practice of separating work and personal life matters, especially during the pandemic.

f) Finding out how and what these individual working adults could learn or have done, regards to juggling both work and personal life matters, especially during the pandemic.

3) The purpose of this research project is to raise light on the idea of work-life balance as well as the challenges faced by working adults in and out of work, either as a separate matter or a contrasting matter. After this project, we hope that the participants as well as the public, can have a better understanding towards the practice of work-life balance. We also hope that there could be improvements made to working conditions as well as people’s lifestyle, as to make changes in self and wellbeing in everyone. Especially in the context of the pandemic, we hope that such mistakes will be learnt and not repeated again as everyone goes back to the office with the pandemic more or less going away these days.

4) How do employees working-from-home during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-COVID-19 pandemic periods experience and manage work-life balance?

5) 8 participants (4 male and 4 female), Participants can be recruited through researcher’s social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram, Telegram etc.) with posts about asking for participants to be recruited for interviews and rough details of this research project explained. This research is of qualitative design so 8 interviews would be needed to conduct. Interviews will be conducted thru Zoom to suit both researchers and participants timings due to possible potential time constraints from both parties. Interviews will be audio-recorded and safekept with researcher, away from interviewees and the public. Transcripts will be made after the interviews and be attached to be research paper as to analyse data needed for this research project. The following data will be analysed in a form of thematic analysis by Braun & Clarke, 2006. 

6) Working individuals have been failing to understand and let alone practice the separation of work from one's personal life. With the pandemic that was happening, it was even harder for these individual working adults to juggle and settle both work and personal life matters peacefully, as expected.

Research aims: 

a) Identify how Generation Z feel about being influenced by social media, why and how it influences them on a daily basis. 

b) Social media is a widely used platform these days, how does it affect Generation Z in their daily lives and how do they portray themselves to others.

c) Aiming to figure out what kind of positive and negative influence of their self-esteem does it affect Generation Z

3) Social media is a platform that is easily accessible to anyone these days, and majority would have at least 1 social media account. As for generation z, according to american psychological association, 9 out of 10 gen z have experienced some type of mental health concern and one of the most common contributing factors is social media. 

4) How does Generation Z experience the influence of Social Networking Sites (SNSs)?

5) Generation Z (aged 20 to 25 years old), through social circle of friends, 

Data collection: through interviews, phone calls 

Data analysis: through thematic analysis, listening and analyzing similar ideas/statements for theme

6) motivation through peers, instead of comparing / diverting away from negative contents / finding motivation through relatable peers or videos 

- Personality test can be used to better understand participants’ personality accurately (www.16personalities.com) – a widely popular site well known for its accuracy and efficiency

- A set of questions prompted to participants to identify any link between their current personality type and their childhood experience, where they also share on their relationship with their family members, experiences in school within their recollection, and they believe could have been done better

- Data collected will then be analysed through the Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis method 

6) Possible findings
- Relations between factors such as conservative teaching, independency given, relationships between parents and child , with how it could affect and shape personality

- Introversion/extroversion levels, conscientiousness, neuroticism

- How positive Childhood Experiences (PCE) lay a foundation for optimal childhood development and social connectness despite co-occurring adversities

- How negative early life stressors in childhood, where the brain and body is still highly developing, bring about negative impact to an individual’s physical, psychological, social health in adulthood

- Findings whether early intervention can prevent consequences of adverse/unhealthy personality development

2.This topic aims to counter the influence and understand more on how social media has affected the current generation.

3.There are many articles on the influence of body image in the world of social media, most of which such studies have come up with the conclusion that exposure to ideal body image contributes from mild to moderate decrement when it comes to body satisfaction/perception as it does affect a person’s well being. With this research I will be co-relating my findings back to the cognitive and behavioural studies in Psychology as there are many implications and factors affecting an individual's psychological functioning, such as low self esteem and depression.

4.WHAT ARE THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON PERCEPTIONS OF BODY IMAGE IN SINGAPORE?

5.A total of 8 individuals, aged between 17-32, working adults as well as students, will be interviewed using semi structured questions through audio recording. This set of data will then be extracted and coded in the table, Following which the data extracted will be discussed in details, with each theme different than the other. Because my research uses verbal data such as interviews being recorded, the data will need to be transcribed into written form in order to conduct a thematic analysis. I will then come up with a more detailed analysis of it into sub-themes. 

6.At the end of this research, I am able to provide my research with a wider range of analytic options, explain the cause and effects, and potentials for the range of things that can be said about to support my data as well as possible helpful solutions to help individuals who are suffering silently.