There are thousands of people constantly battling with homelessness every day. Being homeless means that they don’t have a home therefore they typically have no way to live. People become homeless for many different reasons. It can be because they lost their job or they lost their house. They may have dropped out of school at a young age which permits them from getting a job because of their lack of skills. Some people also become homeless because of drugs and other daily life issues we all have to deal with. But what makes each homeless person different is by how well they cope to make it through life.

In addition to this, there are studies showing three types of homelessness. The three types of homelessness is new entry, chronic and episodic. New entry homelessness is when the person never had previous experience dealing with homelessness but they are now homeless for about less than a year. Another type of homeless is chronic homelessness. Chronic homelessness means that the person been homeless for a long time. The last type of homelessness is episodic. This means the person is constantly in and out of homelessness for more than one year. Based on these three types of homelessness there are studies showing the effects of stress and mental health problems that can take a toll on their life.

There are articles that have studies which show the results of stress and mental health problems among homeless people. An article named “Stress, coping, and mental health differences among homeless people by Lippert, A. M., & Lee, B. A. (2015) have a study proving that people who are chronically homeless are assumed to have higher rates of mental health problems than episodically or new-entry homeless individuals. Then there’s an article explain the reasons why young people become homeless (Rosenthal, D., Mallett, S., & Myers, P). Then there’s articles like “Down and out in America: The origins of homelessness” and “Becoming and remaining homeless: A qualitative investigation” which talks a lot about homelessness. Also the article “Young people, drug use and family conflict: Pathways into homelessness” talked about drugs and how it effect people and their families.

My experiment solves a major problem in psychology because there are studies that talks down on homeless people. They believe that homeless people decline in behavior rather than incline. They believe that once a person becomes homeless then, they learn to depend on people for survival rather than themselves. But by this experiment it shows that just like everyone else homeless people are motivated by something. To perfect a skill there must be some type of reward place to motive someone to do something. For example, people would not work if they were not getting paid. They are motivated to work because of the money that they are getting rewarded. Solving this problem can further advance the field because people will start to reach out for homeless people. Also homeless people will also try to reach out to other homeless people as well. When one homeless person makes it out of homelessness, they might come back to try to help others out of homelessness. Also people love to observe others. If they see one person making a better living for themselves then they will build more hope to one day better themselves as well.

My work is mostly different to other works in this field because when I did my research before designing this experiment it was hard to find good things that come out of a person that is homeless. A lot of the studies were negative. For my study a potential problem may be to get homeless people to sign up for my game. Getting a person from the category of homelessness of new entry and episodic will be easy to get. But chronic homelessness would be much harder because they been homeless for so long that they already lost hope for a better future. Also if the subjects don’t know the area they live in that can be another problem.

An implication of my study will be that the homeless people would not take the game serious enough. Another implication would be that the task that was given onto them may not develop the skill that’s intended. I tested this game on my friends and it turned out great. But my friends doesn’t have the issue that homeless people has. Therefore the results may not be the same as the results that my friends earned. By this, it can cause a lot of issue with my experiment because the point of my experiment is to help homeless people develop skills that can help them out of homelessness or help better themselves. I hope that this experiment works efficiently.

I came up with it thesis. My thesis states that, “Homeless people that are motivated by some type of reward would show better determination to better themselves”. This supports my thesis because the people that will play my game will be motivated by the prize that I plan to give to the person that wins the game. Therefore it shows that people would do whatever it takes in order to win. They want to be on top so they can receive that reward that can benefit them. The reward is what determined there behavior and how well they performed each task. If there were no reward then it’s proven that they would not put so much effort into completing each task well.