2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Student wellbeing is known to influence academic performance, persistence, and attrition among students. In recent years there has been an increase in the number of studies exploring the wellbeing of students at all levels of education from K-12 to graduate school. These studies have captured different aspects of wellbeing such as subjective including hedonic and eudemonic elements and psychological including stress and mental health concerns. While the term wellbeing has been frequently used in the literature, there is no consensus among studies about the concept of wellbeing and therefore a range of quantitative and qualitative methods have been used to study these varied concepts of wellbeing. In this systematic review of studies on wellbeing, we aim to focus specifically on the quantitative methods used to study wellbeing among engineering graduate students. Using a repeatable method of systematic review involving specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, we aim to classify the different aspects of wellbeing and quantitative methods used to study those wellbeing aspects in studies published between 2014 to 2023. We focus specifically on journal and conference papers that explore psychological wellbeing, mental health, and subjective wellbeing. Our search string has resulted in approximately 1500 papers from 3 databases. We aim to narrow down the studies based on our exclusion criteria and present a landscape of the quantitative methods used to study wellbeing. We hope that this systematic review serves as a reliable repository for researchers and practitioners in the area of wellbeing in future and encourages innovative strategies to explore this area.