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Table 1 Overarching themes and subthemes

From: The role of accommodation environments in student mental health and wellbeing

Themes

Subthemes

The betwixt space

Adjustment and re-attachment

 

Loneliness and social isolation

 

Expectations

 

Self-development with others

Accommodations as vessels to cultivate friendships and communities

Throwing people together: My kind of people/not my kind of people

 

Developing a sense of community

 

Physical design of spaces

The importance of accommodation-based pastoral staff