“How is your thesis going?” – Ph.D. students’ perspectives on mental health and stress in academia

Julian Friedrich, Anna Bareis, Moritz Bross, Zoé Bürger, Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez, Nina Effenberger, Markus Kleinhansl, Fabienne Kremer, Cornelius Schröder

all: University of Tübingen, Germany, and sustainAbility Ph.D. initiative at the University of Tübingen, Germany

Analysis Code for the Mental Health Study at the University Tübingen

This work is now published at PLOSOne: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288103

(Link to the preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uq9w5)

Executive Summary

See the Executive_Summary.pdf for a summary of the study.

Data:

• The coarsed quantitative data can be found in the data folder.
• The complete dataset, including the responses to the open questions, can be found here: https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.12914

Folder structure:

• preprocessing: preprocessing file to get from the raw to the preprocessed data (this is dependent on raw data, which can not be shared).

• data_analysis: data analyis pipeline (dependent on preprocessed data). Apart from the faculty-wise comparison, all analysis can be run on the coarsed data. For the reported sociodemographic statistics the results may slightly differ due to coarsing.

• notebooks: R notebook and HTML file explaining all preprocessed variables. The HTML file can be viewed here directly.

• questionnaire: raw questionnaire as exported from sosci survey.