Navigating the Doctoral Experience: The Role of Social Support in Successful Degree Completion

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Striving to Obtain a School-Work-Life Balance: The Full-Time Doctoral Student (2013, background): “Doctoral student departure has been linked to financial constraints (Kluever, 1997), stress (Lovitts, 2001; Offstein et al., 2004), negative social support (Jairam & Kahl, 2012), matters of advisor incompatibility (Golde, 1998), isolation (Ali & Kohun, 2006), and unmet expectations (Golde, 1998).”
Doctoral students’ experiences leading to completion or attrition: a matter of sense, progress and distress (2017, background): “Overall, these studies show a significant, although complex, influence of the supervising style on PhD students’ outcomes (Bair and Haworth 2004; Bell-Ellison and Dedrick 2008; Jairam and Kahl 2012; Ives and Rowley 2005; Litalien 2014; McAlpine and McKinnon 2013; Paglis et al. 2006).”
Who Are the Doctoral Students Who Drop Out? Factors Associated with the Rate of Doctoral Degree Completion in Universities (2018, background): “Second, most studies solely focused on samples of American PhD students (e.g., Jairam & Kahl, 2012; De Valero, 2001), which are not necessarily representative of all PhD students across the world.”