Key result
Poor supervisor support links to lower health satisfaction in doctoral candidates, partly mediated by motivation.
Why the study?
While empirical studies address doctoral candidates' health, the mechanisms linking supervision and doctoral candidates' health often remain unclear.
Does supervisor support improve health satisfaction in doctoral candidates?
Cross-Sectional (n=200)
No
Does supervisor support improve health satisfaction in doctoral candidates?
Poor supervisor support is negatively associated with doctoral candidates' health satisfaction, a relationship that is partly mediated by their motivation.
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Hypothesis-generating for supervisor support interventions; prospective studies needed before changing doctoral training practices.
More and more empirical studies address doctoral candidates' health. Yet, the mechanisms linking supervision and doctoral candidates' health often remain unclear. We start to fill this research gap with classifications of supervisors produced by latent class analysis, which were introduced into structural equation models with motivation towards the dissertation research as a mediator to predict doctoral candidates' health satisfaction. We used data from more than 200 doctoral candidates from a German university. Three types of supervisor support were extracted (poor support: 18.4%; good support: 26.4%; very good support: 55.2%). Poor support was significantly negatively associated with doctoral candidates' levels of motivation and health satisfaction. The relationship between poor support and health was partly mediated by motivation. By means of the advanced statistical models, mechanisms linking supervision and doctoral candidates' health could be identified and research on the dimensions of (very) good supervisor support could be expanded.
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Kunz et al. (2023) conducted a cross-sectional in Health satisfaction (n=200). Poor supervisor support vs. Good or very good supervisor support was evaluated on Health satisfaction. Poor supervisor support was significantly negatively associated with doctoral candidates' health satisfaction, a relationship partly mediated by motivation.
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