Skip to main content
Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Composite Narratives with Arts-Based Analysis of Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Stress and Social Supports to Identify Structural Barriers Cover

Composite Narratives with Arts-Based Analysis of Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Stress and Social Supports to Identify Structural Barriers

Open Access
|Jun 2025

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

JHCS Model (Dawson et al., 2016) adapted and modified from (Mirabelli, 2023).

Figure 2

An arts-based memo created after an interview (participant 11).

Figure 3

Arts-based memos of the first author after interviewing some of the participants (participants 1, 2, 4, and 13) whose quotes are present in George’s narrative.

Figure 4

Arts-based memos of the first author after interviewing with some of the participants (participants 5, 9, 12, and 14) whose quotes are present in Maya’s narrative.

Figure 5

George’s experiences with stress mapped onto the JHCS.

Figure 6

Maya’s experiences with stress mapped onto the JHCS.

Figure 7

George’s experiences with social support mapped onto the JHCS.

Figure 8

Maya’s experiences with social support mapped onto the JHCS.

Figure 9

George’s experiences with career stresses mapped onto the JHCS.

Figure 10

Maya’s experiences with career stresses mapped onto the JHCS.

Table 1

Synthesis of JHCS maps to identify potential for structural change.

MOVEMENT ON THE JHCS MAPSTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS
Knock on roommate’s door, ask to talk (M)Physical proximity to resources (friends, food, locations of interest)
Clubs too late at night (G)
Don’t have a meal plan (G)
Separated by travel time (G)
Friend ask to play video games (M)
Isolating from friends (G)
Grinding, saving money (G)Money
Career makes more money (G)
Things will pay off (G)
Using planner (G)Support for time management
Overthinking, stress overload (M)
Feel bad relying on friends (G)Support for social-emotional regulation
I’m less social (M)
Labor to explain college to family (M)
Isolating from friends (G)
Table 2

Intermediate step demonstrating resulting groupings from prong 2 of arts-based memos*.

IDDISPARATE CLUSTERSINTERCONNECTED CLUSTERS/SOCIAL NETWORKSYELLOW COINS AND BLACK LINES/MONEY STRESSSPIRALS/WAVEY/WELLBEING/CENTEREDNESS
1x
2xx
3X
4x?x?xx
5x
6x
7xx
8x
9xxx
10x
11x
12xlitex
13Xx
14xx

[i] *All arts-based memos are included in the supplementary materials.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/see.160 | Journal eISSN: 2690-5450
Language: English
Page range: 98 - 128
Submitted on: Nov 28, 2023
Accepted on: May 8, 2025
Published on: Jun 10, 2025
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 Jeanne Sanders, Joseph Mirabelli, Eileen Johnson, Karin Jensen, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.