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• TITLE: Connectedness and Faith as Keys to Thriving: A Mixed Methods Study of Doctoral Students in an Online Learning Environment during COVID-19

  AUTHORS: Janet Deck, Kirsty Gilpin, Ryan Nichols, Andre De Souza Lima, Thomas Gollery, Sarah Yates

  KEYWORDS: Doctoral Students, Thriving, Faith Traditions, Peer Connections, Faculty Connections, Pandemic

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.11 No.9, September 18, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Thriving in academic settings has been extensively studied in multiple settings, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed life inside and outside the classroom. This mixed method study was designed to measure doctoral students’ level of thriving in an online learning environment in the midst of the pandemic and to determine the factors that contributed to thriving. The purposive sample of 88 doctoral students at a Christian university in the southeast region of the United States completed the Graduate Thriving Questionnaire (Schreiner, 2015) in November 2021 to address the research questions. Analysis of the survey results revealed that students at the university were thriving despite the struggles introduced by COVID-19 restrictions. From the survey respondents, 16 students were randomly chosen to be interviewed regarding the factors that contributed to their thriving during the pandemic. The interview transcripts were analyzed qualitatively to determine the primary factors contributing to positive levels of thriving. Two primary themes emerged from the data analyses: 1) The level of connectedness students felt to one another in their cohorts and the doctoral faculty during the crisis and 2) The importance of personal faith when facing the uncertainty and fear generated during the pandemic.