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SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1390784
This article is part of the Research Topic Reviews in Educational Psychology View all 16 articles

Factors associated with the permanence of doctoral students. A scoping review

Provisionally accepted
Edna Hurtado Edna Hurtado 1Esther Rosado Esther Rosado 1Martin Aoiz Martin Aoiz 1Soledad Quero Soledad Quero 2Elkin O. Luis Elkin O. Luis 1*
  • 1 University of Navarra, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain
  • 2 University of Jaume I, Castelló de La Plana, Valencian Community, Spain

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    The permanence of students in doctoral programs is a multi-causal phenomenon, which makes it difficult to address and leads to an isolated investigation of its causes, being necessary a joint understanding. The aim is to investigate, through a scoping review of quantitative studies published between 2015 and 2021, the influence of individual, academic, socioeconomic and institutional factors on retention, attrition and dropout. The 32 included studies evidenced a predominance of research focused on individual factors versus few that combined all possibly relevant factors. The present study provides evidence for the emergence of several subfactors: female students, self-efficacy and motivation (individual); the relationship with the supervisor (academic); support for psychological needs (institutional); and migratory status (socioeconomic). This article highlights the need for research that understands this problem with a multifactor approach and an impact on permanence.

    Keywords: Edna Hurtado: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, investigation, methodology, resources, Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Elkin O Luis: Conceptualization

    Received: 23 Feb 2024; Accepted: 04 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Hurtado, Rosado, Aoiz, Quero and Luis. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Elkin O. Luis, University of Navarra, Pamplona, 31009, Navarre, Spain

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