Interrelationship between stressors, personality characteristics and social support of medical postgraduates
10.3969/j.issn.1001-6325.2018.07.029
- VernacularTitle:医学研究生压力源与人格特征及社会支持的相互关系
- Author:
Lin HOU
1
;
Chao JI
;
Ruo-Bing ZHANG
;
Yong WANG
;
Zhen ZHANG
Author Information
1. 中国科学院 心理研究所 中国科学院大学 心理学系
- Keywords:
medical graduate student;
stressors;
personality characteristics;
perceiving social support
- From:
Basic & Clinical Medicine
2018;38(7):1038-1041
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To explore the current sources of stress for medical graduates, their personality characteris-tics and social support. Methods 208 postgraduates of Peking Union Medical College were surveyed by question-naire with the Graduate Student Stressor Scale, Symptom Checking List ( SCL-90) , NEO Five-Factor Inventory and Perceived Social Support Scale ( PSSS) . Results According to the five common stressors such as academic, economic, employment, physical and mental health, and tutor relationship, single-factor analysis of variance ( ANOVA) showed that there were significant differences in the composition of pressure sources between different sexes and grades. Univariate correlation analysis showed that all five dimensions of stressors had a significant posi-tive correlation with anxiety and depression symptom. There was a positive correlation between stressor and neurotic personality, and significant negative correlation with extroversion and rigorous personality. Furthermore, the stressors were significant negative correlation with perceived social support. Conclusions Medical graduate students are under various pressures at present. It is necessary to pay more attention to the education and training in the fu-ture and adopt diversified measures to rationalize them.
