PANDEMIC, DOCTORAL STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THE ROLE OF SUPERVISION

IF 0.8 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Marwa Dabaieh, Elnaz Sarkheyli
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Abstract

The Ph.D. research and supervision process passes through different momentums of ups and downs, demotivation, and stress. Unexpected situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and its considerable influence on daily life and their working situation and research process, put new pressures on Ph.D. students. This study aims to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral motivation, the supervisions' strategies, and the importance of supervisors in helping students tackle demotivation and stress situations. In this study, we conducted an online survey, including open-ended and Likert scale questions, distributed among the doctoral students and interviews with supervisors at Malmö University. According to the survey result, the pandemic has affected the doctoral students' research methodological process, communication frequency and efficiency with their supervisors, access to the office and laboratory, and motivation to write and finish their doctoral thesis. Stress, new life and family priorities, the uncertainty of fieldwork and research methods, isolation, skepticism about the importance of their research, and less connection with supervisors and peers have been mentioned as their reasons for demotivation. In addition, the survey results showed that most respondents emphasized the importance of the supervisors' role in their motivation. The message from this study is that the clarity of feedback, setting realistic goals, time management, mutual understanding, caring and support, flexibility and availability, regular and informal meetings, and positive attitudes are essential factors in doctoral supervision under stressful situations. The findings pinpoint the most efficient supervision strategies during challenging situations like the pandemic, which can be lessons for future similar events. However, the results also addressed the students' different needs and the importance of awareness and attention to the students' differences under supervision and mentoring.
流行病、博士生的动机与监督作用
博士的研究和指导过程经历了起起落落、失去动力和压力等不同的动力。新冠肺炎疫情等突发事件对博士生的日常生活、工作和研究产生了巨大影响,给博士生带来了新的压力。本研究旨在探讨COVID-19大流行对博士生动机的影响,导师的策略,以及导师在帮助学生应对动力不足和压力情况下的重要性。在这项研究中,我们进行了一项在线调查,包括开放式和李克特量表的问题,分布在博士生中,并与Malmö大学的导师进行了访谈。根据调查结果,疫情影响了博士生的研究方法过程,与导师的沟通频率和效率,进入办公室和实验室,以及撰写和完成博士论文的动机。压力、新的生活和家庭优先事项、实地工作和研究方法的不确定性、孤立、对研究重要性的怀疑以及与导师和同龄人的联系较少被认为是他们失去动力的原因。此外,调查结果显示,大多数受访者强调主管在他们的激励作用的重要性。本研究的信息是,反馈的清晰度,设定现实的目标,时间管理,相互理解,关心和支持,灵活性和可用性,定期和非正式会议,以及积极的态度是压力情况下博士生监督的必要因素。研究结果指出了在大流行等具有挑战性的情况下最有效的监管策略,可以为未来类似事件提供经验教训。然而,研究结果也指出了学生的不同需求,以及在监督和指导下对学生差异的认识和关注的重要性。
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