Well-being, meditation and mental health
Method Stream: Longitudinal Intensive Methods
ECs Both 14 and 23 EC thesis possible
Description:
Many young adults (18-25 years) struggle with stress and low well-being due to e.g., increasing responsibilities and expectations, and major changes in their lives, which can lead to other problems with mental health.
In this project, students will use existing data (14EC) from a questionnaire in which (different dimensions of) well-being, meditation, sleep, and related mental health variables are measured in young adults.
Possible constructs (to be) included in the questionnaire and data-set consist of:
Well-being, meditation, perceived stress, sleep, resilience, stress mindset, loneliness, and possibly intolerance of uncertainty, and fear of missing out.
Analyses (research questions) can include (models of) e.g., mediation and moderation of variables related to well-being.
For a more elaborate project (23EC thesis), students can join the research on a brief well-being intervention – with pre-post measurements, SCED, and/or interviews. This well-being intervention is applied over 4 weeks with students and young adults in higher education.
Who are we looking for?
For the cross-sectional data research, students with a clear affinity for the main subject of well-being (14EC).
For the intervention research, students who speak Dutch, with a clear affinity for the main subject of well-being and interested in intervention research (23EC).