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.
	I am not motivated by the content of my studies.