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Health-Related Quality of Life, Success Probability and Students’ Dropout Intentions

Evidence from a German Longitudinal Study

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ID21751965
AuthorsTim Baalmann (0000-0003-2883-1028, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume65
Issue1
Pages153-180
Publication date2024-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueResearch in Higher Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1573-188X • E-ISSN: 0361-0365
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11162-023-09738-7
OpenAlexW4380082270
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited106

One in three students suffers from at least one common mental disorder highlighting the high prevalence of health issues in higher education. At the same time, every third student drops out of university without achieving their degrees. Nevertheless, connections between health and students’ dropout behavior have hardly been investigated. Grounding on value-expectation theory, this article argues that the students’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) alters the impact of their self-assessed success probability in graduating on their dropout intentions. To examine the research question, data from the LAST project, which surveyed a German undergraduate student population over a period of four semesters (N = 7,169), were used applying fixed effects regressions, and interaction effects. Analyses uncover that the students’ mental health status is in fact linked to their intentions to drop out of university. Furthermore, an interaction effect of mental HRQoL and success probability could be confirmed. The findings suggest that universities should adopt better health promotion policies that bring together both individual health needs and higher education’s interest in successful graduates

Demographic economics · Drop out · Environmental health · Geography · German · Health promotion · Higher education · Medical education · Mental health · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Public health · Aging and Gerontology Research · Applied Psychology · Medicine · Nursing · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology

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