Compatibility of working and studying for part-time students

This paper presents and discusses the first results of a longitudinal qualitative and quantitative study on stress and exhaustion in part-time college students. Studying, in addition to full-time or part-time employment, gives students a triple burden consisting of work, study and leisure or family. This stress situation often leads to discontinuation or substantial interruption of studies or even health effects on students, e.g. Burnout. The purpose of this study is – also in view of the increasing number of part-time study programs – to identify the factors that can affect academic success systemically over the course of the semester, in order to incorporate preventive measures in teaching as well as in the central university organization from an early stage.

10.08.2011 | Gudrun Gaedke, Barbara Covarrubias Venegas, Stefanie Recker & Gerald Janous (Wien)