Interest, Burnout, and Drop-Out Intentions Among Finnish and Danish Humanities and Social Sciences PhD. Students

Aim/Purpose: This study focused on advancing understanding of individual variations in doctoral students’ interest their studies and how they related to experiences burnout drop-out intentions Denmark Finland. Background: Ph.D. interest, burnout, dropout among Finnish Danish students have not been researched before. Research with a person-centred approach exploring undertaking two comparable but distinct socio-cultural contexts is limited. Methodology: uses exploratory factor analysis, K-means cluster analyses combination Pairwise comparisons, ANOVA, Chi-square test. A total 365 social sciences humanities disciplines Finland responded Cross-Cultural Doctoral Experience Survey. Contribution: contributes variation across by identifying four personal profiles. The profiles were invariant the contexts. also shed further light interrelation between research risk for suffering from entertaining intentions. Findings: identified High profile, Moderate Developmental, impact Development profile. All exhibited high levels developmental however varied especially weight given instrumental interests. profile showed signs prone consider dropping out. Also, individuals considered more frequently out studies. Recommendations Practitioners: Investing identification support worthwhile, as permanent characteristic individual, research, development, indicates lower Recommendation Researchers: It possible that are same national investigated this study, underpinnings premises different. likely qualitative would these foci. Impact Society: results imply was determined differences countries, indicating cultivating particularly impact, provides potential buffer drop-out, which has raised global concerns policy makers, researchers, education developers administrators during past decade. international communities. Future Research: reflect specific characteristics applied nature. remains future investigate extent relation emerge natural sciences.