Puiu, SilviaUdriştioiu, Mihaela TincaPetrişor, IulianYılmaz, Sıdıka EceSpodniaková Pfefferová, MiriamRaykova, ZhelyazkaYildizhan, HasanMarekova, Elisaveta2025-07-042025-07-0420242227-9032https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12151492https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/721In: Healthcare. Basel : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2024. ISSN 2227-9032. Vol. 12, no. 15 (2024), pp. 1-19.This paper aims to identify the factors that are positively or negatively impacting students’ well-being and their academic engagement. We used partial least-squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) using the data collected through a questionnaire from four countries: Romania, Turkey, Slovakia, and Bulgaria. The model includes seven factors that influence the well-being of students and indirectly their academic engagement: stressors in the students’ lives; professors’ support; social support from family and friends; the students’ perceived satisfaction in their lives; engaging in activities during their leisure time; self-exploration regarding their careers; and environmental exploration regarding their careers. The results show that all factors, except for stressors and environmental exploration regarding their careers, positively influence the students’ well-being and thus their academic engagement. These findings are useful for university professors and managers in better organizing activities to increase academic performance.enCC BY Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessživotná pohodawell-beingwellbeingsociálna podporaštudentistudentsArticle