Work and Study of University Students: Conflict or Facilitation?

This study is devoted to the research of the phenomenon of combining work and study by full-time students of higher educational institutions and uses quantitative and qualitative methodology. Based on the data of the online survey of full-time students studying at the multidisciplinary University of St. Petersburg (N=948) with the use of the logistic regression model, the factors significant for predicting the combination of work and study were determined. Also, based on the analysis of modern theoretical models and empirical studies, a model of factors and outcomes of facilitation and conflict was built. With the use of linear regression models, the factors related to the conflict and facilitation between work and study were identified. On the basis of 14 semi-structured interviews using the method of interpretative phenomenological analysis, the motives of employment, combination strategies that are practiced by working students, and the meanings that they give to study and work were determined.