RESEARCH_FILE
Katia Levecque
Ghent University
Known for:Lead author of the 2017 Research Policy study surveying 3,659 PhD students in Flanders, finding that one in two experiences psychological distress and establishing work-family interface and supervisor relationship as the primary structural predictors of graduate mental health
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Key findings
- 2017
Levecque et al. found that PhD students in Flanders are significantly more likely to suffer from common psychiatric disorders than the general population, highly educated employees, or higher education students — and that work-family conflict, supervisory relationship, and decision-making latitude were the strongest structural predictors of PhD student mental health outcomes. Work organisation and mental health problems in PhD students ↗