...Hyeon Jean Yoo; David T. Marshall Purpose This study aims to understand the role of seeking social support in the relationship between perceived helplessness, self-efficacy and satisfaction among graduate students during the pandemic, drawing upon the transactional model of stress and coping...

... in the social sciences. Design/methodology/approach Using data from a cross-sectional convenience sample survey (N = 99), this paper looks at ordinal social support variables (faculty member support, family social support and family financial support) by demographic groups. This paper uses a Mann...

... potentially having an impact on the profiles. Design/methodology/approach The authors explored the interrelationship between personal interest – social support profiles, and nationality, gender, research group and study status and the risk of dropping out. A total of 768 PhD candidates from a research...

... of relationships with supervisors, other university staff and work peers were not predictors of anxiety. Social support resilience which was present at baseline buffered the relationship between perceived academic challenges and anxiety. Practical implications Higher education institutions have a duty of care...

...Wendy B. Schiff; K. Marinka Gadzichowski; Matthew G. Le Brasseur; Melissa C. Carlin Purpose This study aimed to investigate the impact of a university’s abrupt closure on the lives of graduate students and examined the role of grit, social support and school identification as they transferred...

.... The results confirm previous findings on the positive effects of social support and the relationship between poor well-being and attrition. Practical implications Support groups could form an integral part of university support as they increase well-being and could improve retention. Originality/value...

... contributed to student progress. Receiving social support has been related to an engaging doctoral experience and, whereas, a lack of support and poor feedback have been associated with increased risk of experiencing burnout (Vekkaila et al., 2016). Accordingly, a lack of support combined with overly...

... acknowledgements. The paper employs a sample of 79 PhD acknowledgements drawn from diverse disciplines across Australian universities to illustrate the types of social support provided, who and what is acknowledged as providing support and the intersections between the types and providers of support. Findings...