Student psychological distress and degree dropout or completion: a discrete-time, competing risks survival analysis

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 484-498

  Cvetkovski, Stefan ^a   Jorm, Anthony F ^a   Mackinnon, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

degree completion; degree dropout; discrete time survival analysis; Psychological distress; structural equation modelling; university students

Indexed keywords

EID: 85034665112     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2017.1404557     Document Type: Article

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