Challenges of Becoming a Scholar: A Study of Doctoral Students' Problems and Well-Being
Table 2
The items included in the questionnaire.
Scale
Items included in the scale
Stress
“Stress means a situation in which a person feels tense, restless, nervous or anxious, or is unable to sleep because his/her mind is troubled all the time.”
Do you feel this kind of stress these days?
Exhaustion
I feel exhausted.
My workload is often too high.
Doctoral studies are too stressful for me.
I worry about my thesis in my free time.
Anxiety
I often fear that I will fail in my doctoral studies.
I am stressed out by the workload, deadlines, and competition in doctoral studies.
I must often force myself to work on my thesis.
Lack of interest
It is difficult for me to find meaning in my doctoral studies.