An Exploration of Positive Psychological Training to Enhance the Psychological Resilience of Medical Students
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- 10.2991/978-2-38476-214-9_8How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Positive psychological training; Medical students; psychological resilience
- Abstract
Objective: To explore the role of positive psychology training in enhancing the level of psychological resilience of medical students. Methods: Taking the two elective courses voluntarily enrolled as an opportunity, the elective course “Positive Psychology - Happiness Class” was set as a training group with 49 students, while the other course was a medical skills course not related to psychology, which was set as a control group with 40 students. The intervention group was given 8 weeks of positive psychology training, while the control group was taught medical skills without psychological training. Psychological resilience levels were measured before and after the intervention for the intervention group and the control group, respectively. The results were analyzed by independent samples t-test and repeated measures anova. Results: The psychological elasticity level of the intervention group significantly increased after the training, while there was no significant change in the psychological elasticity level of the control group before and after the measurement. Conclusions: Positive psychological training can effectively improve the psychological resilience level of medical students.
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TY - CONF AU - Xiaoxia Zhang AU - Yi Song PY - 2024 DA - 2024/02/21 TI - An Exploration of Positive Psychological Training to Enhance the Psychological Resilience of Medical Students BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 51 EP - 57 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-214-9_8 DO - 10.2991/978-2-38476-214-9_8 ID - Zhang2024 ER -