School group

1. Key words: School environment, wellbeing, social relationships, participation, contact-education * Participation in Stimulus and its effects on life quality (Karri) * International student tutoring in Jyväskylä University (Henna) * Contact-education and students psycho-social well-being in the University of Jyväskylä (Johanna) * Cyberbullying (Annakaisa) * Q & A School group

2. Why this subject? - Bowman, Brandenberger, Lapsley, Hill & Quaranto (2010) found out that the number of hours spent volunteering and the number of organisations with which one volunteers are both positively associated with future well-being. - How about wellbeing now? - Stimulus. - There seems to be no Finnish studies done in this field before. Does participation in Stimulus has an effect on life quality?

3. - Participation, life quality and its subareas were reflected in a Internet based questionnaire. - Questionnaire was sent out and responded by 16 current or former task holders of Stimulus. Information gathering

4. * Invitation letter and Likert- scale 7. I believe that working in Stimulus has an negative effect on my self-esteem. 1. 33,3% (5) 2. 26,7% (4) 3. 0,0% (0) 4 . 6,7% (1) 5. 33,3% (5) Mean: 2,80 N= 15 * → 2nd invitation letter Epic fail took place

5. - Social interaction, friends - Joy from success - Decent stress levels - Strong feeling of belonging to academic world Result Participation has an positive effect on life quality Key findings

6. - Great variation in duration of participation - Outliers in data were counted in when assessing - Purely not qualitative or quantitative Limitations

7. - Proposition to gain academic credits - Recruiting new members - Applying to other student associations Use of this study