Adult personality and its relationship with stress level and coping mechanism among final year medical students
Each human being exhibits their own personality traits and each aspect of stress and coping is essential and related. The relationship between the big five personality traits, coping mechanisms and stress level among final year medical students of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) was investig...
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| Language: | English |
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Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2019
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15556/1/14_ms0313_pdf_65229.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/15556/ https://www.medicineandhealthukm.com/toc/14/2 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Each human being exhibits their own personality traits and each aspect of
stress and coping is essential and related. The relationship between the big five
personality traits, coping mechanisms and stress level among final year medical
students of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) was investigated in this study.
In this cross-sectional study, 152 final year medical students batch 2017/2018,
were randomly selected, excluding those who had chronic diseases, married and
repeated final year. The questionnaires used were Big Five Personality Inventory
and 12-Item General Health Questionnaire. An open-ended question was used
to determine how the respondents cope with their stress. Data was analyzed
using SPSS 20.0. Agreeableness was the most common personality trait portrayed
among the students, whereas Openness to Experience appeared to be the least.
The relationship between the Big Five Personality Traits and coping mechanisms
(p=0.016; p<0.05) were significantly related. Students with Neuroticism personality
had the highest rate of practicing avoidant coping mechanism, while students with
Extraversion personality had the highest rate of practicing active coping mechanism.
Total score of stress were significantly difference between the different personality
traits (p<0.001; p<0.05). However, the p value of 0.359 (p>0.05) and 0.94 (p>0.05)
for the Big Five Personality Traits and level of stress showed no significant results
on academic performance. Identified own personality were beneficial for final
year medical students as it helps to identify the most effective coping mechanism
in reducing stress during studying medicine. |
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