The transition of University life is a major life event that is characterised by adjusting to new academic life, forming new peer groups and outgrowing one's comfort zone. However, this becomes more prominent in the context of engineering students at top engineering institutes such as the IITs. The present study aims to assess the general health status of the engineering students through the measure of dimensions such as academic resilience, emotional intelligence, peer groups interactions and perceived parenting styles of the students as the baseline data to capture the current issues of the students through a narrative analysis. The previous studies in the field have attempted to study these co factors as independent factors influencing academic resilience and thus, the present study aims to address this gap through inoculating the diverse factors into a broader area of study.
The present study will employ a mixed method approach following an Explanatory design and the sample will be BTech and Mtech students (n=500) with mean age range between 20-28 years. The tools for the quantitative study will be psychometric assessments and the qualitative tools of data collection will employ observation, interviews and focused group discussions. The data will be analysed through descriptive statistics and narrative analysis will be employed for the soft data. Furthermore, the expected findings of the study will be to understand the overall health of the students through two constructs- individual (emotional intelligence) and social factors (perceived parental style, peer groups interactions) and its relationship with academic resilience.
Thus, the present study will highlight the holistic and objective representation of the experiences of the engineering students from diverse socio-demographic backgrounds and its implications in the current academic and non-academic policies of the institute to re-direct towards student-centric reforms.