The psychological factors of doctoral students: challenges of becoming scholar

Psychological factor consist of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or other cognitive or affective characteristics of an individual that influence his/her behavior. Doctoral studying is at the core of academic practices. There are several complementary factors that contribute to the doctoral experience, for instance, supervisory relationship, the scholar community and doctoral student's individuality. Successful studying in Ph.D. education is a complex matter. Although Ph.D. student are a highly select group, some never finish. It is a challenges journey. Aim of the Study is to find out the psychological factors of anxiety, lack of interest, stress, and exhaustion experienced by the doctoral students. Objectives of the study are to explore the psycho-individual factors, the psycho-supervisory relationship factors and the psycho-scholar community factors. The data was obtained from 32 doctoral students from eleven different Universities in India, during the 10 days National workshop on Research Methodology, at Yashwantrao Chavan Institute of Social Science Studies and Research, Bharati Vidyapeeth University, Pune. This study has thus concluded with analyzing the psychological factors of Individual, supervisory relationship and community causes.