Is Student Stress Related to Personality or Learning Environment in a Physician Assistant Program?

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to study the impact of students' personalities and 2 different learning environments—lecture-based learning (LBL) and problem-based learning (PBL)—on the stress perceived by 5 cohorts of physician assistant (PA) students. Methods: Students rated their stress...

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Publicado en:Journal of Physician Assistant Education (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins) Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 9 - 20
Autores principales: Wardley, C. Sonia, Applegate, E. Brooks, Almaleki, A. Deyab, Van Rhee, James A.
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Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Mar2019
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          Wardley, C. Sonia
          Applegate, E. Brooks
          Almaleki, A. Deyab
          Van Rhee, James A.
        affil: C. Sonia Wardley, MA, is an adjunct associate professor in the Physician Assistant Department at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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          Stress, Psychological Psychosocial Factors
          Personality Classification
          Learning Environment
          Education, Physician Assistants
          Students, Physician Assistant
          Learning Methods
          Human
          Clinical Assessment Tools
          Problem-Based Learning
          Questionnaires
          Teaching Methods
          Curriculum
          Repeated Measures
          Quasi-Experimental Studies
          Chi Square Test
          Gender Role
          T-Tests
          Academic Performance
          Stress, Psychological Classification
          Post Hoc Analysis
          Multivariate Analysis of Variance
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
      ab: Purpose: The purpose of this research was to study the impact of students' personalities and 2 different learning environments—lecture-based learning (LBL) and problem-based learning (PBL)—on the stress perceived by 5 cohorts of physician assistant (PA) students. Methods: Students rated their stress related to family obligations, financial concerns, schoolwork, relocation, and overall stress on 6 occasions over the course of the 2-year program. Personalities of students were assessed using the California Psychological Inventory 7 months into the program. Students' expectations and observations of their learning environments were measured using the PA School Learning Environment Survey at the beginning and end of the didactic year. Results: Personalities of LBL and PBL students were very similar, but LBL students who scored higher on the Independence concept were less stressed about their schoolwork. The LBL students, in general, were more discontented with their learning environment, but this finding was not related to higher schoolwork-related stress. In contrast, PBL students' personalities were not related to stress, and PBL students also rated some dimensions of their learning environment higher than they had expected. However, those PBL students who rated the PBL environment less favorably also reported higher schoolwork-related stress. Conclusions: High stress perceived by LBL students was related to some personality concepts but not to the students' learning environment, despite their overall disappointment with that environment. The PBL students were more stressed by schoolwork, although their stress was not related to personality. Problem-based learning students, except for those most highly stressed, tended to rate their learning environment more favorably.
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