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Isolated in the Lab: Examining Dissatisfaction with Postdoctoral Appointments
- The Journal of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 86, Number 5, September/October 2015
- pp. 697-724
- 10.1353/jhe.2015.0029
- Article
- Additional Information
Dissatisfaction with postdoctoral appointments is associated with demographics, career goals, types of research, postdoc-advisor interaction, and program quality. Rather than a simple inverse relationship to dissatisfaction, the effect of program quality depends on the postdoc’s autonomy to shape a research project, interaction with an advisor, and the advisor’s commercialization-related activities.