Attitude Towards Stress Among First Year Medical Students

Abstract

The results of modern research show that first-year students, in particular students of medical universities, experience severe stress due to the changed conditions of their life, heavy loads and physiological limitations. The consequences are quite serious, among those a decrease in academic achievement, lowered satisfaction with the educational situation and the chosen profession as a whole, an increase in psycho-emotional stress, the maximum number of expelled students, including expelled at their own free will, falls on the first year. An empirical study will identify problem areas and outline a set of measures to adapt freshmen. The attitude to stress in the context of the subjective approach can be considered through the analysis of interrelated cognitive, emotional and behavioral components. The study was conducted among first-year medical students of various specialties. The results show their extremely negative attitude towards stress. In first-year students' perception, stress is closely related to learning situations and living in a dormitory; they experience negative emotions in stress situations and primarily use avoidance as a coping strategy. We can say that they practically don’t notice the mobilizing possibilities of stress, which raises the question of the need for their psychological support, in particular, training in more adaptive strategies for coping with stress.

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