Although significant underrepresentation remains, many Black men successfully complete PhDs in science, accruing resources and deploying resilience strategies to manage stress including the constant stress associated with racism. We explore the role resilience plays in the success of three Black men, using annual interviews collected from…

Neoliberal education policies -- viewing students' life as human capital, economic investment for the labour market and consumer power -- may increase students' workload in higher education. In this mixed methods study, we examined music students' experiences of workload in Finland and the United Kingdom in connection with stress and livelihoods.…

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has had far reaching implications on every aspect of human life -- from where we work, to where we feel safe to grocery shop, to how we greet friends. At the same time, the pandemic has exposed long-standing issues of structural racism, xenophobia, social and economic inequities, precipitating multiple large-scale…

Concerns over the spread of COVID-19 closed many university campuses during the spring of 2020 and resulted in a shift to remote instruction. This communication argues that the rapid nature of the transition and the circumstances surrounding the pandemic made the experience distinct from traditional online learning. The corresponding community…

Recent data reveal that nearly half of all full-time undergraduate students in the U.S. are employed, which means balancing competing responsibilities related to work, school, family, and social lives. The purpose of this pilot interview study was to understand the experiences of full-time college students who work at least 30 h per week. Four…

A vibrant and sustainable research environment is essential to establish a thriving PhD program. Organization for PhD Education in Health Sciences in European System, a European platform to promote best practices in PhD education in health sciences, published a guideline entitled "Best Practices for PhD Training." The guideline includes…

Peer mentoring has emerged as a viable retention strategy to aid higher education institutions in their efforts to ensure freshmen students make it through that crucial first year and beyond and obtain that degree. Although peer mentoring has been in existence for decades and, there is increasing research on this topic, there are no reviews of the…

Self-regulation is the ability to adjust one's level of energy to match the situation; monitor, evaluate and modify one's emotion; shift attention or ignore various stimuli; engage in social interactions in a sustained way; and connect and empathize with other people. This research explored self-regulation among teachers as a factor in student…

This study was carried out with the aim of examining the stress levels towards academic expectations and goal commitment of pre-service teachers (students who are not yet teaching professionally) in terms of various variables. The data were obtained from pre-service teachers (n=465) studying at a public university. In this study, two scales were…

Emerging evidence suggests that prenatal stress does not solely undermine child functioning but increases developmental plasticity to both negative and positive postnatal experiences. Here we test this proposition using the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study while implementing an extreme-group (i.e., high vs. low prenatal stress) design (n =…

This study examined associations between school violence-related stress, coping self-efficacy (CSE), job satisfaction, and quality of life (QOL) in school teachers, focusing particularly on the mediating effects of CSE and job satisfaction on teachers' QOL. The sample consisted of 528 elementary, middle, and high school teachers. The multiple…

Objectives: College students have cited the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a significant source of stress. The current study examined the prevalence and demographic correlates of clinically significant election-related avoidance and intrusion symptoms among college students 2-3 months after the election. Participants: College students…

Criminological literature has examined the potential for gendered pathways of offending, while also recognizing the gendered risk for victimization. General strain theory explicitly recognizes this gendered risk as strains that structure differences in these experiences for males and females. The current article tests the longitudinal risk for…

Academic stress is a commonly reported affective state by high school students that can be accompanied by unwanted and unhelpful short-and long-term implications including a low sense of school belonging. Understanding how academic stress may be alleviated or managed by students is an essential consideration for all schools concerned with student…

College seniors face several potential stressors associated with the transition from college to career. This study examined the types of concerns reported by 320 college seniors and the degree of stress associated with these concerns. Researchers measured coping strategies with a focus on the use of problem-focused versus emotion-focused coping.…