First-year at university: the effect of academic employability skills and physical quality of life on students' well-being.

Background: With increasing access at European universities, supporting and promoting the high education, students' mental well-being and generic employability capacities have become priorities, but their respective influences, after an adaptation period of seven months, remain unclear.

Objective: Our aims were to analyse the relationships between students' well-being and self-perceived academic employability skills, and other social and environmental factors.

Methods: Three hundred and twenty-one freshmen students at the end of their first year completed an online questionnaire.