Wellbeing of Graduate Engineering Students: A Systematic Review
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Portland, Oregon
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June 23, 2024
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June 23, 2024
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July 12, 2024
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 6
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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)
- Tagged Topic
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Diversity
- Permanent URL
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https://peer.asee.org/48265
Paper Authors
Syed Ali Kamal University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Syed Ali Kamal is a doctoral student at the Department of Engineering Education at University at Buffalo. His research interests lie in the area of social justice and issues related to diversity, equity and Inclusion.
Syeda Fizza Ali Texas A&M University
Syeda Fizza Ali is currently pursuing her PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering (emphasis in Engineering Education) at Texas A&M University. She works as a graduate research assistant at the Department of Multidisciplinary Engineering. Her work focuses on instructional strategies in engineering, and educational technology. She is also passionate about student mental health and broadening participation in engineering.
Matilde Luz Sanchez-Pena
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
orcid.org/0000-0002-3511-0694
Dr. Matilde Sánchez-Peña is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo – SUNY where she leads the Diversity Assessment Research in Engineering to Catalyze the Advancement of Respect and Equity (DAREtoCARE) Lab. Her research focuses on developing cultures of care and well-being in engineering education spaces, assessing gains in institutional efforts to advance equity and inclusion, and using data science for training socially responsible engineers.
Abstract
Student wellbeing is known to influence academic performance, persistence, and attrition among students. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of studies exploring the wellbeing of students at all levels of education from K-12 to graduate school. These studies have captured different aspects of wellbeing such as subjective including hedonic and eudemonic elements and psychological including stress and mental health concerns. While the term wellbeing has been frequently used in the literature, there is no consensus among studies about the concept of wellbeing and therefore a range of quantitative and qualitative methods have been used to study these varied concepts of wellbeing. In this systematic review of studies on wellbeing, we aim to focus specifically on the quantitative methods used to study wellbeing among engineering graduate students. Using a repeatable method of systematic review involving specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, we aim to classify the different aspects of wellbeing and quantitative methods used to study those wellbeing aspects in studies published between 2014 to 2023. We focus specifically on journal and conference papers that explore psychological wellbeing, mental health, and subjective wellbeing. Our search string has resulted in approximately 1500 papers from 3 databases. We aim to narrow down the studies based on our exclusion criteria and present a landscape of the quantitative methods used to study wellbeing. We hope that this systematic review serves as a reliable repository for researchers and practitioners in the area of wellbeing in future and encourages innovative strategies to explore this area.
Kamal, S. A., & Ali, S. F., & Sanchez-Pena, M. L. (2024, June), Wellbeing of Graduate Engineering Students: A Systematic Review Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/48265
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