Investigating the tension between persistence and well-being in engineering doctoral programs

IF 3.9 2区 工程技术 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Journal of Engineering Education Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI:10.1002/jee.20526
Kanembe Shanachilubwa, Gabriella Sallai, Catherine G. P. Berdanier
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Abstract

Background

While studies examining graduate engineering student attrition have grown more prevalent, there is an incomplete understanding of the plight faced by persisting students. As mental health and well-being crises emerge in graduate student populations, it is important to understand how students conceptualize their well-being in relation to their decisions to persist or depart from their program.

Purpose/Hypothesis

The purpose of this article is to characterize the well-being of students who endured overwhelming difficulties in their doctoral engineering programs. The PERMA-V framework of well-being theory proposes that well-being is a multifaceted construct comprised of positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, accomplishment, and vitality.

Design/Method

Data were collected in a mixed-methods research design through two rounds of qualitative semistructured interviews and a survey-based PERMA-V profiling instrument. Interview data were analyzed thematically using the PERMA-V framework as an a priori coding schema and narrative configuration and analysis.

Results

The narratives demonstrated the interconnectedness between the different facets of well-being and how they were influenced by various experiences the participants encountered. The participants in this study faced prolonged and extreme adversity. By understanding how the multiple dimensions of well-being theory manifested in their narratives, we better understood and interpreted how these participants chose to persist.

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工程博士项目中持久性与幸福感之间的紧张关系研究
背景虽然研究工程专业研究生流失的研究越来越普遍,但对坚持学习的学生所面临的困境却没有完全了解。随着研究生群体中出现心理健康和幸福危机,重要的是要了解学生如何将自己的幸福与坚持或放弃课程的决定联系起来。目的/假设本文的目的是描述那些在博士工程项目中遇到巨大困难的学生的幸福感。幸福感理论的PERMA-V框架提出,幸福感是一个多方面的结构,包括积极的情感、参与、关系、意义、成就和活力。设计/方法数据是通过两轮定性半结构访谈和基于调查的PERMA-V分析仪器在混合方法研究设计中收集的。访谈数据使用PERMA-V框架作为先验编码模式和叙事配置和分析进行主题分析。结果这些叙述展示了幸福感的不同方面之间的相互联系,以及参与者如何受到各种经历的影响。这项研究的参与者面临着长期和极端的逆境。通过理解幸福理论的多个维度如何在他们的叙述中表现出来,我们更好地理解和解释了这些参与者是如何选择坚持的。
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Journal of Engineering Education
Journal of Engineering Education 工程技术-工程:综合
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) serves to cultivate, disseminate, and archive scholarly research in engineering education.
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