Research Yourself: Analysing the effects of Coaching Psychology among doctoral candidates

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Recent research has shown the effectiveness of Coaching Psychology interventions as a valuable approach to support doctoral candidates’ wellbeing and performance. One of the most studied constructs regarding the cognitive mechanisms by which coaching facilitates performance at the workplace is self-efficacy, but, to date, it has not been explored yet among research careers. Accordingly, the present study aimed to implement, for the first time in Spain, a coaching-psychology intervention among doctoral candidates and to assess changes in self-efficacy before and after the intervention. 20 doctoral candidates at the University of Barcelona participated in the study and were randomly assigned to 6 individual or group-format weekly sessions. Results showed very large increases in self-efficacy after the coaching sessions, independent of the intervention format (group or individual). Although further studies are needed, the present results encourage more research on the topic and suggest that coaching psychology would be an effective strategy for universities to increase early-stage researchers’ self-efficacy and, potentially, to better cope with the increasing mental health problems after the Covid-19 pandemic among doctoral candidates.

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Reche, E., Duran, M., Bajona, C., Farnés, M., Monferrer, M. C., Feliu-Soler, A., & Muro, A. (2023). Research Yourself: Analysing the effects of Coaching Psychology among doctoral candidates. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7535000