Engaged and/or Burnt Out? Finnish and South African Doctoral Students' Experiences

Autor/inn/en	Pyhältö, Kirsi; Peltonen, Jouni; Anttila, Henrika; Frick, Liezel Liezel; de Jager, Phillip
Titel	Engaged and/or Burnt Out? Finnish and South African Doctoral Students' Experiences
Quelle	In: Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 14 (2023) 1, S.1-18 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1108/SGPE-02-2021-0013
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; Burnout; Foreign Countries; Doctoral Students; Student Experience; Well Being; Comparative Education; Profiles; Student Satisfaction; Time to Degree; Gender Differences; Doctoral Dissertations; Finland; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Burn out (Psychology); Burnout-syndrom; Burnout-Syndrom; Ausland; Doctoral studies; Doctorate studies; Student; Students; Doctoral candidate; Doktorandenprogramm; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Doktorand; Doktorandin; Studienerfahrung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Doctoral dissertation; Doctoral thesis; Doctoral theses; Dissertationsschrift; Finnland; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Purpose: Doctoral students' ill-being in terms of stress, exhaustion and high levels of mental health problems has been well documented. Yet, the well-being of doctoral students is more than the absence of these negative symptoms. The number of studies exploring the combination of positive and negative attributes of doctoral students' well-being is limited. Therefore, this study aims to focus on exploring individual variation in doctoral students' experienced engagement and burnout across two distinct socio-cultural contexts in Finland and in South Africa. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 884 doctoral students from Finland (n = 391) and South Africa (n = 493) responded to the cross-cultural Doctoral Experience Survey. The data were quantitatively analyzed. Findings: Altogether four distinctive engagement-burnout profiles were detected, including engaged, engaged-exhausted, moderately engaged-burnout and burnout profiles. Differences between the Finnish and South African students were identified in profile emphasis. The profiles were also related to several study progress attributes such as drop-out intentions, time-to-candidacy and satisfaction with study. Originality/value: This study provides new understanding on doctoral students' well-being by focusing on both positive and negative attributes and exploring doctoral students' discrepant profiles with a cross-country design. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01