대학원생의 사회적 지지 프로파일에 따른 학습몰입과 리라밸의 차이

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Purpose: This study aimed to explore the latent sub-groups of graduate students’ social support measured by supervisor support, coworker support, and career network, and to examine the differences between research-life balance and learning engagement as distal outcomes across the latent sub-groups. Method: A Latent Profile Analysis was adopted to find the latent sub-groups using 488 graduate students’ responses in the A university of a metropolitan area. For the distal outcome variables, BCH in Mplus was used. Results: The results showed that the three-profile model was considered to be the best model. The latent profiles were characterized by the levels of perception of social support of graduate students: low-level, moderate, and high-level. In comparing the distal outcome, learning engagement was significantly different between the high-level and moderate-level social support profiles as well as the moderate and low-level social support profiles. It indicated that graduate students could engage in learning when they felt they had more social support. In addition, RLB (Research-Life Balance) significantly differed between the moderate and high levels of profiles. The magnitude of mean difference in RLB, however, was negligible. Conclusion: Based on the results, we suggested the practical implications for improving the quality of graduate students learning and life through graduate school’ policy.

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