Schmidt, Lea (2023) Consequences of part time employment for academic performance. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Part-time work is a double burden for undergraduates and deteriorates their mental health. Indeed, research shows that academic performance can suffer if students are under stress, inflexible when it comes to time and not doing well mentally. However, in real life undergraduates have acquired skills to compensate for this especially when they are highly motivated. In the current study we investigate whether academic performance and mental health of students was influenced by the presence of a part- time job, the number of hours spend on it, and self-efficacy beliefs. Based on prior findings, we propose that students who work part-time have lower average grades and lower psychological well-being compared to students who do not work part-time. Furthermore, student’s self-efficacy beliefs will influence their study hours. Students from different faculties (N = 189) filled an online questionnaire regarding their academic performance, characteristics of their part-time job, level of well-being, and self-efficacy beliefs. To examine potential differences a cross-sectional field study was conducted. Results demonstrated that neither academic performance nor mental health was significantly affected by part- time work or time spend for it. We found that working part- time besides studying did not lower academic performance nor was harmful for students’ well- being. However, we discovered that part-time work was related to confidence in owns abilities. But no relation between self-efficacy beliefs and study hours in students. The implications of the study regarding representativeness of the sample, generalization of the results and follow up data collection are discussed. Keywords: academic performance, students’ part-time employment, self-efficacy beliefs
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Cavalini, P.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Aug 2023 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Aug 2023 11:44 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2814 |
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