Well-being Resources for Students in Times of COVID-19

As a small thank you for the participation in our current survey study, we wanted to provide students a resources PDF with some tips and tricks to maintain one’s psychological well-being despite COVID. Here, you can find some resources here on how to cope with a pandemic in general, one’s lifestyle, and how to study […]

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Poster Presentation at the ICO International Spring School 2021

This week, I attended the International Spring School, which should already have taken place last year in person, but, unfortunately, had to be rescheduled and put into an online context. In this framework, I presented the current status of our project on student well-being and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands and our […]

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Teachers matter.

Already in our first paper, Raven Rinas and I were focusing on the interaction of teacher and student well-being and found that both of them are interacting. The lesson is clear: When I am well as a teacher, they will be better off as well. This is why teacher well-being is also of high relevance […]

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Student Well-being During COVID-19

We are currently still interviewing our participants on issues surrounding student well-being during this COVID-19 period, how their well-being has been affected, which role the learning environment plays herein, and which aspects helped them through these times. As a small sneak preview, we want to present our study timeline, placing the four times of measurement […]

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Our first publication is online!

It’s official, our first publication on the interaction between student and teacher well-being at the university is online, published at Frontiers in Psychology! Want to give it a read? You can find the open access publication at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.578378/full

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Times have changed…

…and so has our research project. Just like the rest of Europe, we work in home office, and cope with the cancellation of various conferences we would have taken part in. Like that, we are taking social distancing seriously and trying to get everything done from the kitchen/living room table. Doable! The current situation made […]

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Talking About Well-Being in Higher Education – officially pre-registered

The very first study of our project ‘Enhancing student’s resilience’ is now officially pre-registered. You can find the study’s registration on https://osf.io/vu9jp ! What is the first study about in detail? Students show substantially higher prevalence for mental health problems than the general community samples. However, the academic environment can also have a positive impact […]

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Interdisciplinary Inspiration BBS Symposium

Today Lisa held her very first poster presentation about the project! It was an exciting and inspiring symposium with a lot of new insights from various interdisciplinary researchers. If you want to know more: Check out https://www.rug.nl/gmw/psychology/calendar/interdisciplinary-inspiration-bss-symposium During the two poster sessions, she could already present the process of the first study and how we […]

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