Novelty-seeking and avoidant coping strategies are associated with academic stress in Korean medical students

An, Hoyoung; Chung, Seockhoon; Park, Jangho; Kim, Seong-Yoon; Kim, Kyung Mo; Kim, Ki-Soo

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2012.07.048

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“…Different studies around the world have shown different ways of coping adopted by medical students when faced with academic stress. [1819202122] While a recent study[23] showed that in Korean students novelty-seeking and avoidant coping strategies are associated with academic stress, our study showed that in the face of academic stressor along with Non cope/negative Coping and Blame, students use Positive Cope and Humor too. This finding emphasizes cultural differences in coping styles and stress perception.…”

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Coping Styles and its Association with Sources of Stress in Undergraduate Medical Students

Cherkil

Gardens

Soman

2013

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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Context:The two ubiquitous factors that have been identified in medical courses to underlie mental health are stress and different coping styles adopted to combat stress.Aim:To find the association between coping styles and stress in undergraduate medical students.Settings and Design:A medical college in Central Kerala. A cross-sectional study design was adopted.Materials and Methods:Source and Severity of Stress Scale, Medical Student Version, was used to assess the source and nature of stress. Brief Cope was used to find out the coping styles adopted.Statistical Analysis:The statistical analysis was done using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 20 and SAS. Chi-square analysis was used to find the association between coping styles and stress domains and with the overall stress score.Results:There is a significant positive association between overall stress score and coping styles (P=0.001) of ‘Negative cope’, ‘Blame’, and ‘Humor’. ‘Positive cope‘ and ‘Religion’ has significant positive association with ‘Academics’ (P=0.047) and 'self Expectations’ (P=0.009). ‘Blame’ (P<0.001) has very high significant positive association with ‘Academics’, 'self expectation’, and ‘Relationships’. Very high significant positive association is further found between ‘Humor’ (P<0.001) and 'self expectations’, ‘Living conditions’, and ‘Health and Value conflict’. ‘substance Use’ is positively associated in high significance to ‘Health and Value conflict’ (P<0.001).Conclusions:The outcome of the study emphasizes the need for stress management techniques in the medical school.

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Coping Styles and its Association with Sources of Stress in Undergraduate Medical Students

Cherkil

Gardens

Soman

2013

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine

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“…This is supported by Nayak, who proposed that smartphone use in students is related to a wish for escape from reality, even just temporarily (30). Such avoidant coping is often associated with health problems and depression (31). Not only with psychopathology, coping mechanism is related to temperament.…”

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Temperament profile and its association with the vulnerability to smartphone addiction of medical students in Indonesia

Hanafi

Siste

Wiguna

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Temperament profiles of an individual with high novelty seeking and low harm avoidance have been reported to be related to substance addiction, but smartphone addiction could be different from substance addiction. Medical students have high exposure to smartphone use. Screening their risk of smartphone addiction based on the temperament profile may help in deciding best prevention approach. This research aimed to examine the temperament profile and its association with vulnerability to smartphone addiction of medical students in Jakarta, Indonesia. The research was conducted with cross sectional design and simple random sampling. The Temperament and Character Inventory and the Smartphone Addiction Scale were used to measure desired outcomes. Logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the relationship between demographic factors, pattern of smartphone use, temperament type, and vulnerability to smartphone addiction. Of the 185 samples, most subjects have low novelty seeking, high reward dependence, and high harm avoidance. The average smartphone usage in a day was 7.94 hours (SD 3.92) with the initial age of smartphone usage was 7.58 years (SD 2.43).The respondents used smartphone for communication and accessing social media. High harm avoidance temperament was significantly associated with risk of smartphone addiction with OR 2.035; 95% CI 1.119 to 3.701). This study shows that smartphone addiction has similarities with other behavior addictions. Harm avoidance temperament is associated with the risk of smartphone addiction. Screening on risk of smartphone addiction based on temperament type should be done on medical students.

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“…When students are exposed to academic stress for a long period, they often express depression, anxiety, aggression, or anger5, 6, 7, 8 and this goes under the influence of physical and psychological burnout accompanying frustration, exhaustion, fatigue, helplessness, and cynical attitude 9, 10…”

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The effects of personality traits on academic burnout in Korean medical students

Lee

Choi

Chae

2017

Integrative Medicine Research

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BackgroundPrevious studies suggest that personality traits play an important role in academic burnout. The aim of this study was to investigate how Cloninger’s temperament and character traits explain academic burnout in a highly competitive environment of medical school.MethodsA total of 184 Korean medical students participated in the survey. The Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory was measured around the beginning of the semester and Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey at the end of the semester. The correlations and stepwise regression analysis were conducted to explain the association between personality traits and academic burnout. In addition, latent profile analysis and profile analysis were employed to distinguish and explain differences of personality traits among latent academic burnout subgroups.ResultsThe higher harm avoidance of temperament and lower self-directedness and cooperativeness of character predicted the subscales of academic burnout in medical students. The Temperament and Character Inventory personality profile of high, middle, and low latent burnout subgroups were significantly different.ConclusionThis study showed that personality might account for the burnout level in medical education. The importance of character dimension for modulating the effects of temperament traits on academic burnout was discussed for future research.

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Novelty-seeking and avoidant coping strategies are associated with academic stress in Korean medical students

Cited by 33 publications

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Coping Styles and its Association with Sources of Stress in Undergraduate Medical Students

Coping Styles and its Association with Sources of Stress in Undergraduate Medical Students

Temperament profile and its association with the vulnerability to smartphone addiction of medical students in Indonesia

The effects of personality traits on academic burnout in Korean medical students

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