Work in Progress: Using Photovoice to Examine the Mental Health Experiences of Engineering Graduate Students During COVID-19
Work in Progress: Using Photovoice to Examine the Mental Health Experiences of Engineering Graduate Students During COVID-19
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正在进行的工作：使用 Photovoice 检查工程研究生在 COVID-19 期间的心理健康经历
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
J. Mondisa
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作者：
S. Bork;J. Mondisa
心理健康服务利用率和报告的心理健康问题(如焦虑、抑郁和自杀意念)在全国范围内有所上升。心理卫生资源的可获得性是高等教育机构关注的一个重要问题。高校校园心理咨询中心无法跟上学生心理咨询需求的步伐。此外，其他资源(例如校外咨询中心)还有无数额外的障碍阻碍学生访问它们，包括成本、服务知识、缺乏时间和心理健康专业人员短缺。这一点非常值得关注，因为学生的学业进步已被证明与他们的心理状态有关，未诊断和未治疗的心理健康问题会影响学生的满意度、学习成绩、研究效率和坚持下去的意愿。此外，众所周知，延迟获得护理是复发频率和病程增加的一个因素。在研究高等教育中的心理健康时，研究人员经常将研究生和本科生群体聚集在一起。然而，这些研究可能无法解释这些群体的学位计划和学术领域的主要差异，包括不同的学术和社会需求。关于工程学研究生的研究尤其稀少，大多数工作都集中在特定人口群体(例如，黑人、女性或国际研究生)的经历上。所做的工作突出了贬低结果，工科学生表现出更高水平的自我报告的心理健康问题(例如，抑郁、焦虑、创伤后应激障碍)。需要研究来探索工科研究生的心理健康体验，更深入地探索学生的典型行为，以及这些行为是如何受到对成为工程师的期望的影响的。在这项初步研究中，我们使用照片启发和访谈过程PhotoVoice来探索一所大型公立大学的八名工科研究生是如何量化和描述他们的心理健康经历的。正在通过初步调查、提交的图片和说明、个别采访和焦点小组收集数据。初步调查结果报告了最初调查的结果，包括抑郁、焦虑、兴旺、学业挑战和感知到的工作与生活平衡。这些发现可能会提供与心理健康有关的工程学潜在文化的重要信息。数据还将显示工程学研究生在工程环境中的位置(例如，他们的部门、研究实验室和班级)，或者他们如何“适应”。本研究将有助于了解工科研究生的心理健康现状，以及工科研究生的心理健康体验、个体期望与工科研究生心理健康文化之间的互动关系。这些信息对于促进工程学研究生进入劳动力市场至关重要。美国工程教育学会，2021年
Mental health service utilization and reported mental health problems (e.g., anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation) have risen nationally. Accessibility to mental health resources is a critical concern for higher education institutions. College and university campus counseling centers are unable to keep pace with students' counseling needs. Furthermore, other resources (e.g., off-campus counseling centers) have a myriad of additional barriers that prevent students from accessing them, including cost, knowledge of services, lack of time, and mental health professional shortages. This is of great concern as students' academic progress has been shown to correlate to their mental state, with undiagnosed and untreated mental health problems affecting students' satisfaction, academic performance, research productivity, and intention to persist. Furthermore, delayed access to care is known to be a factor in increased frequency of relapse and the course of the illness. In studying mental health in higher education, researchers often group together graduate and undergraduate student populations. Yet, these studies may not account for major differences among these groups' degree programs and academic fields of study, including differing academic and social demands. Studies on engineering graduate students are particularly sparse, with most work focusing on the experiences of specific demographic communities (e.g., Black, women, or international graduate students). Work done highlights disparaging results, with engineering students exhibiting higher levels of self-reported measures of mental health problems (e.g., depression, anxiety, PTSD). Research is needed to explore engineering graduate students' mental health experiences, probing more deeply at students' typical behaviors and how these behaviors are informed by expectations of being an engineer. In this pilot study, we use photovoice, a photograph elicitation and interview process, to explore how eight engineering graduate students at a large public university quantify and describe their mental health experiences. Data is being collected using an initial survey, submitted images and captions, individual interviews, and a focus group. Preliminary findings report results from the initial survey, to include measures on depression, anxiety, flourishing, academic challenges, and perceived work-life balance. These findings may provide vital information on the underlying culture in engineering with respect to mental health. Data will also show how engineering graduate students situate themselves within the engineering environment (e.g., their departments, research labs, and classes), or how they “fit”. This study will provide insight into the current state of engineering graduate student mental health and the interactions between engineering graduate students' mental health experiences, their individual expectations, and the culture of mental health in engineering. This information is vital to promote the matriculation of engineering graduate students into the workforce. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021
斗争常态化：教师对博士生支持的维度及其对坚持和福祉的影响
DOI：
10.1080/00221546.2018.1449080
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
The Journal of Higher Education
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作者：
Posselt, Julie
通讯作者：
Posselt, Julie
影响因子：
5.9
作者：
BECK, AT;BROWN, G;STEER, RA
通讯作者：
STEER, RA