Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: a serial indirect effects model

Creed, Peter Alexander; Hood, Michelle; Bialocerkowski, Andrea; Machin, M. Anthony; Brough, Paula; Bagley, Louella; Winterbotham, Sonya; Eastgate, Lindsay

doi:10.1080/13639080.2022.2126967

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“…undergraduates at a university in the United States found that the number of dependent children of participants was associated with greater perceived conflict between family and study, and the average hours of paid work was associated with greater perceived conflict between work and study. Creed's et al (2022) analysis of mature-age students in Australia found that congruence, or boundary management, between work and study roles was associated with reduced perceived conflict between these roles. Students' work and family commitments have also been linked to outcomes such as increased attrition (Moore & Greenland 2017;Morison & Cowley, 2017), compromised mental wellbeing (Giancola et al, 2009;Nicklin et al, 2019;Waterhouse et al, 2020) and lower student satisfaction (Waterhouse et al 2022).…”

Section: Creating An Open Online Educational Resource To Support Lear...mentioning

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Creating an Open Online Educational Resource to Support Learners as They Navigate Their Studies Alongside Work and/or Family

Waterhouse,

Moller

2024

IRRODL

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As labour markets undergo rapid and profound transformations, lifelong learning is essential to ensure a responsive, competitive, and skilled workforce. Mature learners are a diverse group, but in comparison to their younger student counterparts, are more likely to have employment and/or caring responsibilities. This field note discusses the development and features of a novel online open educational resource, called At a crossroads: Navigating work and/or family alongside study (At a crossroads for brevity). The resource aimed to assist university students to both learn about the support options available to them as well as to consider how they themselves might make decisions if they experienced a conflict between their student/work/family roles. At a crossroads is innovative in terms of how it was developed (i.e., via survey-based research, story completion method, and consultations sessions with tertiary students) and in terms of what it is (i.e., an online interactive resource that incorporates short dramatizations, social polls, and opportunities to reflect). Our experience in developing this resource caused us to consider how making resources designed to be engaging and informative, while encouraging, positive changes, must be part of the solution. This is especially so when there is significant concern around the overall well-being of tertiary students and their course completion rates. While universities have attempted to offer a range of tools to support their students, on-demand online resources such as At a crossroads are easily accessed, free to use, and deliver content in an engaging manner.

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confidence: 99%

Creating an Open Online Educational Resource to Support Learners as They Navigate Their Studies Alongside Work and/or Family

Waterhouse,

Moller

2024

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ICT as a weight tilting the scales toward “nomadic employees”: Implications for work-school interface experiences of working students

Zhou,

Zhang,

et al. 2024

Educ Inf Technol

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Role congruence and study engagement in mature-age students: a serial indirect effects model

Cited by 2 publications

References 72 publications

Creating an Open Online Educational Resource to Support Learners as They Navigate Their Studies Alongside Work and/or Family

Creating an Open Online Educational Resource to Support Learners as They Navigate Their Studies Alongside Work and/or Family

ICT as a weight tilting the scales toward “nomadic employees”: Implications for work-school interface experiences of working students

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