Waheed Syed Abdul, Gilani Nadia, Raza Mehwish, Ahmad Farooq
Department of Educational Research and Assessment, Faculty of Education, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan.
Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Okara, Okara, Pakistan.
Front Psychol. 2021 Jan 15;11:537366. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.537366. eCollection 2020.
The present study focused on this particular situation in which doctoral candidates become anxious, impatient, and disappointed while experiencing a prolonged delay in processing their dissertation during and after the submission. The researchers tend to explore doctoral candidates' storied experiences they had while confronting such procedural barriers and delays. We undertook a narrative mode of inquiry to explore the events and storied experiences through interviewing doctoral candidates from public universities in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Nine doctoral candidates were selected through snowball sampling with the criterion of including those participants who were waiting for their external reviews at least for more than 1 year. From the narratives, the emergent themes include supervisors' mutual relationships, the pressure of paper publication, lack of administrative support, external evaluation and follow-up and stress of delayed evaluation. The study has implications for relaxing procedural formalities during and after submission of a doctoral dissertation to facilitate students in the timely attainment of their doctoral degrees.
博士生在提交论文期间及之后经历论文处理的长时间延迟时，会变得焦虑、不耐烦和失望。研究人员倾向于探究博士生在面对此类程序障碍和延迟时所经历的故事性经历。我们采用叙事探究模式，通过采访巴基斯坦旁遮普省公立大学的博士生来探索这些事件和故事性经历。通过滚雪球抽样法选取了九名博士生，入选标准是这些参与者等待外部评审至少超过一年。从这些叙述中，浮现出的主题包括导师之间的相互关系、论文发表的压力、缺乏行政支持、外部评估与跟进以及延迟评估的压力。该研究对于在博士生论文提交期间及之后放宽程序手续具有启示意义，以便帮助学生及时获得博士学位。
