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URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-337640
DOI: 10.25656/01:33764; 10.1007/s11205-025-03648-0
URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-337640
DOI: 10.25656/01:33764; 10.1007/s11205-025-03648-0
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Doctoral students' life satisfaction throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Inequalities by parenthood and gender |
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Autoren |
Rußmann, Mareike ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Originalveröffentlichung | Social indicators research (2025), 31 S. ![]() |
Dokument | Volltext (1.376 KB) |
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Schlagwörter (Deutsch) | Doktorand; Zufriedenheit; Pandemie; COVID-19; Wohlbefinden; Ungleichheit; Promotionsstudium; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Eltern; Panel; Deutschland |
Teildisziplin | Empirische Bildungsforschung Hochschulforschung und Hochschuldidaktik |
Dokumentart | Aufsatz (Zeitschrift) |
ISSN | 1573-0921; 0303-8300; 15730921; 03038300 |
Sprache | Englisch |
Erscheinungsjahr | 2025 |
Begutachtungsstatus | Peer-Review |
Abstract (Englisch): | While large and highly societally relevant, the group of doctoral students still plays a subordinate role in the well-being literature. To narrow this research gap, we investigate how their life satisfaction (LS) trajectories developed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We draw on set-point, adaptation, family, and gender theories to examine doctoral students’ LS trajectories before, at the onset of, during, and after the pandemic. Thereby, we consider not only shorter-term but also longer-term consequences of the pandemic. Analysing data from the German National Academics Panel Study (Nacaps) through fixed-effects (FE) panel regression models, we find that doctoral students’ LS decreased – first moderately, then substantially – in the two years after the onset of the pandemic. Thereafter, however, their LS re-approached pre-pandemic levels again. Importantly, parenthood and gender substantially moderated doctoral students’ LS trajectories. Among doctoral students with children, the decline in LS at the onset of and during the Covid-19 pandemic was stronger than among childless doctoral students – especially for mothers. While childless doctoral students re-attained their pre-pandemic levels of LS after the pandemic, doctoral students with children remained below their pre-pandemic level. These results suggest that individuals strongly reacting to a critical life event might not or only slowly return to their baseline level of LS. On a broader note, our results illustrate the need to apply a long-term social inequalities perspective to fundamentally understand how well-being trajectories unfold during crises scenarios. (DIPF/Orig.) |
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Prüfsummen | Prüfsummenvergleich als Unversehrtheitsnachweis |
Eintrag erfolgte am | 20.08.2025 |
Quellenangabe | Rußmann, Mareike; Netz, Nicolai; Schwabe, Ulrike: Doctoral students' life satisfaction throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Inequalities by parenthood and gender - In: Social indicators research (2025), 31 S. - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-pedocs-337640 - DOI: 10.25656/01:33764; 10.1007/s11205-025-03648-0 |