Lakhotia Sapan V, Brahmbhatt Mehul J
Department of Psychiatry, BJ Medical College and Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Indian J Psychiatry. 2025 Aug;67(8):804-808. doi: 10.4103/indianjpsychiatry_6_25. Epub 2025 Aug 15.
Effective coping is indispensable for negotiating the challenges of medical college. Numerous factors affect the choice and usefulness of coping strategies, and personality holds considerable significance among these.
We planned the present study to investigate coping-personality relationships in medical students, identify common coping strategies used, and study the influence of demographic factors on coping.
Students completed questionnaires with demographic details and two self-report scales: Big-Five Inventory (personality) and Brief COPE (coping).
Out of the 300 forms distributed, 256 responses met the inclusion criteria. Brief COPE scores were higher for engagement/adaptive coping. Significant correlations were found between various coping strategies and personality traits. Conscientiousness correlated the most with adaptive strategies and neuroticism with maladaptive ones. We conclude that engagement coping is used more commonly by medical students.
Those with high conscientiousness and low neuroticism are more likely to use effective coping strategies.
有效的应对对于应对医学院的挑战至关重要。许多因素会影响应对策略的选择和有效性,其中人格具有相当重要的意义。
我们开展本研究以调查医学生应对与人格的关系,确定常用的应对策略,并研究人口统计学因素对应对的影响。
学生填写包含人口统计学细节的问卷以及两个自我报告量表:大五人格量表(人格)和简易应对方式问卷(应对)。
在分发的300份问卷中,256份回复符合纳入标准。参与/适应性应对的简易应对方式问卷得分更高。各种应对策略与人格特质之间存在显著相关性。尽责性与适应性策略的相关性最高,神经质与适应不良策略的相关性最高。我们得出结论,医学生更常用参与性应对。
高尽责性和低神经质的人更有可能使用有效的应对策略。