Feeling seen matters: how organization-based self-esteem mediates the relationship between university students' coping resources and thriving in Germany, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates.

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Introduction

While there is substantial evidence on the negative repercussions of study-related stressors on university students' mental health and well-being, comparably less is known about a specific adaptive response to stressors in higher education: students' thriving, that is, the experience of vitality and learning under challenging circumstances. Given the lack of comparative research on students' adaptive outcomes in diverse cultural contexts, we examined coping resources (i.e., academic self-efficacy, ASE; social belonging, SB) as predictors of female and male students' thriving in an individualistic culture (i.e., Germany, n = 259), and compared it to two collectivistic cultures (i.e., Indonesia, n = 839; United Arab Emirates, UAE, n = 230). We furthe

SUBMITTER: Haase J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12457349 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature