A közösség ereje: fiatal oktatókutatók kollektív megküzdési gyakorlata a növekvő kutatási elvárások tükrében
The power of community: Collective coping strategies among early career researchers in response to increasing research demands

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to develop a better understanding of how early career academics (ECAs) cope with the increased research productivity expectations. The two research gaps identified in the relevant literature – the exclusive focus on individual coping, while not questioning individual responsibilisation and seeing ECAs as just receiving support, neglecting the possibility of actively seeking mutual collegial relationships – were examined through the lens of collective coping. This paper addressed the identified gaps by (1) capturing different strategies for collective coping at the group level, which by their nature challenge individual responsibilisation as an exclusive characteristic of academia, and (2) describing ECAs as proactive contributors and beneficiaries of collective coping, thus actively contributing to the creation and maintenance of mutual collegial relationships. Participation and initiation of collective coping may be viewed as means for ECAs to challenge and alter the academia without overtly attempting to revolutionise it, which would expose them to the risk of becoming casualties.

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