Perceived sources and levels of stress, general self-efficacy and coping strategies in preclinical dental students
Perceived sources and levels of stress, general self-efficacy and coping strategies in preclinical dental students
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DOI:
10.1080/13548506.2017.1384844
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发表时间:
2018-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
Oktay, Inci
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作者:
Ersan, Niluefer;Dolekoglu, Semanur;Oktay, Inci
Dental education programs are known to be highly stressfuland stress can affect general health. The aims were to identify sources of stress among preclinical students and to evaluate their perceived levels of stress, self-efficacy and effective coping strategies in a private dental school. Onehundredpreclinical students in a Turkish private dental school were surveyed using dental environment stress (DES), perceived stress (PSS), general self-efficacy (G-SES) and brief coping scales (Brief-COPE). Age, gender, history of psychiatric treatment, factors that affected the choice of dentistry, choice rank of dental school, scholarship and income was recorded. Exams and grades' followed by Fear of failing course or year' were found to be the most stressprovoking factors. The most and the least stressprovoking DES domains were Workload' and Social stressors', respectively. Social stressors' affected male more than female (p