Study Crafting and Self-Undermining in Higher Education Students: A Weekly Diary Study on the Antecedents

Lorena Sarah Körner, Thomas Rigotti and Kerstin Rieder
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Lorena Sarah Körner: Business Psychology, Aalen University, 73430 Aalen, Germany
Thomas Rigotti: Work-, Organizational-, and Business Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 55122 Mainz, Germany
Kerstin Rieder: Business Psychology, Aalen University, 73430 Aalen, Germany

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 13, 1-19

Abstract: The aim of the current study is to validate the adaptation of the job demands–resources theory to the study context. In addition, we introduce the concepts study crafting and self-undermining to the study demands–resources framework by examining the mediating role of engagement and exhaustion in the relationship between study characteristics and study crafting and self-undermining. Over four consecutive weeks, 205 higher education students answered a questionnaire about their weekly study demands and resources, their well-being (i.e., engagement, exhaustion), and their study crafting and self-undermining behaviors. Multilevel structural equation modeling (controlling for autoregressors of mediators and dependent variables from the previous week) demonstrated a positive relationship between study resources and study crafting mediated by engagement, as well as a positive relationship between study demands and self-undermining mediated by exhaustion. Our findings show that even short-term fluctuations in study characteristics affect students’ well-being and, in turn, their proactive and dysfunctional behaviors. Accordingly, universities should provide a resource-rich study environment and limit study demands as much as possible. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that students can also actively influence their study environment themselves.

Keywords: study demands–resources framework; study characteristics; student engagement; student burnout; study crafting; self-undermining; higher education students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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