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Preliminary effectiveness of a well-being intervention and an exploration of a possible mediation
Funk, L. (2022) Preliminary effectiveness of a well-being intervention and an exploration of a possible mediation.
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| Abstract: | Feelings of loneliness and sense of belonging are both important constructs that can have an impact on students’ well-being. Previous research has indicated that both factors can be crucial for students’ well-being especially when students are at the start of their university career. To maintain students’ well-being or even increase it, researchers have developed various well-being interventions for students. The research has shown that such interventions are effective and can enhance one’s well-being. A similar intervention has been developed and tested at the University of Twente. Besides testing the intervention various other aspects of well-being were measured. This study built upon that specific intervention and aimed to examine an explorative mediation effect of a change in feelings of loneliness and sense of belonging on the intervention-effect on students’ well-being. For that the Mental Health Continuum Short-Form (MHC-SF), the short scale for measuring loneliness, and the sense of belonging of perceived cohesion scale were measured in a longitudinal study with students in the bachelor program at the University of Twente. The results indicated that the intervention improved students’ well-being over time. However, the results showed that no explorative mediation effected occurred. Due to collecting the data in a pandemic, future research could repeat the data collection process in times of “normality” and re-examine whether the present study’s results are replicated. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology MSc (66604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/89297 |
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