Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Medical Students and in Humanities Students: Relationship With Big-Five Personality Dimensions and Vulnerability To Stress

Adomas Bunevicius, Arune Katkute and Robertas Bunevicius
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Adomas Bunevicius: Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania, Institute of the Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation of the Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania, a.bunevicius@yahoo.com
Arune Katkute: Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania
Robertas Bunevicius: Institute of the Psychophysiology and Rehabilitation, Kaunas University of Medicine, Lithuania

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2008, vol. 54, issue 6, 494-501

Abstract: Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of anxiety and depression in medical students and in humanities students. To assess the relationship between symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of depression and Big-Five personality dimensions and vulnerability to stress in medical students. Methods: Randomly selected 338 medical students and 73 humanities students were evaluated for symptoms of anxiety and depression using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), for Big-Five personality dimensions using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), and for vulnerability to stress using the Stress Vulnerability Scale (SVS). Results: Symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depression were prevalent in medical students (43% and 14%, respectively) and in humanities students (52% and 12%, respectively). In medical students the score on the HADS anxiety subscale and the score on the HADS depression subscale correlated negatively with the score on the TIPI Emotional Stability scale ( r = —0.39, p

Keywords: depression; anxiety; personality dimensions; vulnerability to stress; medical students; humanities students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1177/0020764008090843

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