Asghar, M., & Minichiello, A., & Kane, D., & Lawanto, O., & Marquit, J. (2023, June), Work in Progress: Proposing Items for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ)  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44338

\bibitem{asee_peer_44338}
  Asghar, M., \& Minichiello, A., \& Kane, D., \& Lawanto, O., \& Marquit, J. (2023, June), \emph{Work in Progress: Proposing Items for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ)}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44338

Muhammad Asghar, Angela Minichiello P.E., Daniel Kane, Oenardi Lawanto, and Joshua Marquit.  "Work in Progress: Proposing Items for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ)".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44338 Internet.  21 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44338}
  Muhammad Asghar, Angela Minichiello P.E., Daniel Kane, Oenardi Lawanto, and Joshua Marquit.
  "Work in Progress: Proposing Items for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ)".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44338 Internet.  21 Jun, 2024

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author = "Muhammad Asghar, Angela Minichiello P.E., Daniel Kane, Oenardi Lawanto, and Joshua Marquit"
title = "Work in Progress: Proposing Items for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ)"
booktitle = "2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2023"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Background
Mental Health and Wellbeing (MHW) research in engineering undergraduate education contexts is in its infancy. Further, to this date, no quantitative questionnaire items have been specifically constructed and validated to measure the potentially unique aspects of MHW of engineering students. In this present study, the conceptual framework for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ) will be proposed. This proposed questionnaire will include 35 items that correspond to 7-factors or latent variables including faculty support, learning experiences, support environment, financial support, task organization, engineering practice opportunities, and task orientation. 
Design/Method
In the fall semester of 2021 at a Western land grant institution, 8 semi-structured interviews of undergraduate engineering students were conducted to inform the development of an MHW questionnaire that could be specifically used with engineering undergraduate students. After conducting a thematic analysis of the students’ interviews, 7 factors or themes emerged that may capture the unique aspects of MHW in undergraduate engineering students. Next, these 7 factors were used to develop open-ended items for an online survey that was sent to all undergraduate students at the university. Survey data (N = 105) was collected in the Spring of 2022. Thematic analysis will be conducted on open-ended responses. 
Results 
Thematic analysis of the 8 student interviews resulted in identifying 7 factors that contributed to the subjective wellbeing of undergraduate engineering students. These factors included faculty support, earning experiences, financial support, task organization, support environment, engineering practice opportunities, and task orientation formed the analytical framework. These 7 factors will be the conceptual framework for the EUSWQ. Thirty-five items, 5 corresponding to each factor in the 7-factor framework will be identified through the analysis of the data acquired through anonymous responses (N = 105) to the 7 open-ended questions and will be proposed for validation in the paper draft. 
Conclusion
The 7-factor conceptual framework and corresponding items proposed in EUSWQ will be the results of rigorous empirical research studies. With further testing, EUSWQ may become a useful tool to quantify and understand more completely the unique aspects of MHW of undergraduate engineering students.

AU  - Muhammad Asghar
AU  - Angela Minichiello P.E.
AU  - Daniel Kane
AU  - Oenardi Lawanto
AU  - Joshua Marquit
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Work in Progress: Proposing Items for an Engineering Undergraduate Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (EUSWQ)
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--44338
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