Promoting Psychological Well-Being and Resilience to Increase Retention in High Achieving STEM Students

该项目将通过支持德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校荣誉学院留住并毕业于德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校荣誉学院，为全国对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求做出贡献。该学院是一所四年制拉美裔服务机构。在为期六年的时间里，该项目将为27名正在攻读生物、化学、计算机科学、数学、物理和天文学学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。一年级学生将获得最多四年的奖学金支持。这个项目将通过研究和瞄准压力和冒名顶替者综合症对留住学生的影响来增加优秀学生的成功。学生将参加一个支持性计划，帮助他们认识到压力对他们生活的影响，发展有效的压力管理和应对技能，识别和解决他们的社会支持需求，并优先考虑自我照顾。了解减压在职业成就中的有效性对于留住STEM领域的高质量学生将是重要的。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位毕业率。压力和冒名顶替者综合症被认为是生活中的负面因素，但关于它们对成绩优异的大学生，特别是来自代表不足的群体的学生的留存能力有多大的影响，人们知之甚少，他们可能会受到更大的负面影响。这个项目将调查一个提高压力意识和培训以减轻压力的计划是否可以显著提高留校率和毕业率。该项目有可能通过将压力缓解技术作为STEM领域学术计划的一部分来增加有才华的STEM专业人员的数量。心理适应水平将使用成熟的面试工具来衡量，学生的成功将通过GPA和毕业率来衡量。年度评估将通过外部公司面试参与者来完成。该项目的成果将通过会议报告和期刊出版物公布。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。它还旨在改善对未来STEM工人的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学业成功、留住、转学、毕业和学业/职业道路的知识。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need in the Honors College of the University of Texas at San Antonio, a four-year Hispanic-Serving Institution. Over its six- year duration, this project will fund scholarships to 27 uniquefull-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy. First-year students will receive up to four years of scholarship support. This project will increase success in high achieving students by studying and targeting the effects that stress and imposter syndrome can have on retention. Students will participate in a supportive program which will help them recognize the impact stress is having in their lives, develop effective stress management and coping skills, identify and address their social support needs and prioritize self-care. Learning about the effectiveness of stress reduction in career achievement will be important inretaining high-quality students in STEM fields. The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Stress and imposter syndrome are recognized as negative factors in life, but little is known about how great their impact can be on retention among high achieving college students, especially among students from underrepresented groups who may be subject to greater negative effects. This project will investigate whether a program to increase awareness of stress and training to reduce stress can significantly increase retention and graduation rates. This project has the potential to increase the number of highly talented STEM professionals through applying stress reductiontechniques as part of the scholastic program in STEM fields. The levels of psychological adaptation will be measured using well established interview instruments and student success will be measured by following GPA and graduation rates. Annual evaluation will be accomplished through an outside firm interviewing participants. Results of this project will be made available through conference presentations and journal publications. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.