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Journal Article
“The Best Times of Our Lives?” Institutional Factors That Shape University Students’ Quality of Life
2025
Overview
Acquiring a thorough grasp of the factors influencing students’ academic quality of life is essential for educators, administrators, and legislators to successfully support students and foster an environment centered on their well-being and growth. Utilizing Tinto’s model of student integration and the theory of social support (theories selected because they focus on the importance of academic and social integration in promoting student retention and engagement, and on how supportive relationships help students manage stress and improve their well-being), this article’s objective is to analyze the outcomes of a qualitative bottom-up research involving 69 Romanian undergraduate students. The students are enrolled in social sciences programs at a mid-size public university in the Western Region of Romania. The study aimed to understand the students’ perspective on the institutional factors that influence the quality of their academic life, and how these factors interact and intertwine to shape their academic experience. We focused on the main stressors, as well as the main supportive factors that facilitate the attainment of students’ academic goals. The thematic analysis of the data collected through eight focus-groups revealed four main areas that influence students’ quality of academic life: economic and financial; access to infrastructure and facilities; administrative and organizational processes; and the educational process. We discuss the two types of factors (stressors and supportive) in relationship with each of these areas. We explore how to stimulate the promotion of positive factors, that reduce negative influences, and improve the quality of students’ lives through changes at the institutional level.
