Time Use and Stress

The Survey is about student’s time use and stress. The questionnaire was set up of several question blocks in the following order: estimation of overall stress level, coping mechanisms with stress, perceived burden of different life conditions, time estimations of different domains for an average day and the previous day, perception of time strain in these domains. The survey ended with an item block on background information and an item block about the circumstances in which the survey was completed. See the codebook for question wording and descriptives. The survey included five different questionnaire versions with no header, a header with a picture of a campus (placed left or right) and a header with a picuture of an auditorium (placed left or right). The last page of the survey gave participants the possibility to participate in a lottery with a 50 Euro Amazon coupon as an incentive. Common time taken to complete the survey was about 10 minutes. The survey was conducted in June 2015 and sent out among a probability sample of 10,000 students at a German university.