Features of type personality behaviour among young and healthy students of medicine are related to the declared level of stress but not to the level of stress measured objectively
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Biomedical Research - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Abstract: Features of Type A are common among physicians and may be related to the experience of stress. We aimed to assess the prevalence of features of Type A and the level of declared vs. objectively measured stress among young, healthy men and women studying medicine. 130 healthy female (age: 23±2; BMI: 20.9±2.4 kg/m2) and 71 male (age: 22±2 years; BMI: 24.3±3.3 kg/m2) medicine students completed the Polish versions of: the Framingham Type A Scale, The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10) and the Sense of Stress Questionnaire (SSQ, with 3 subscales assessing: emotional tension, external stress and internal stress). Moreover, we measured the level of cortisol (the ‘stress’ hormone) in saliva. Results in both questionnaires assessing perceived stress did not correlate with the level of cortisol (both p>0.05). In both genders, features of Type A were positively related to the perceived stress (PSS-10: accordingly, r=0.6 and r=0.5; SSQ: r=0.6 and r=0.6; all p<0,001), but not with the level of cortisol (p>0.05). Development of the pattern of behavior called Type A personality-behaviour might be related to the conviction of experiencing stress rather than to its actual level measured objectively. Such observation could be valuable for physicians who experience extremely high level of stress during their work. Keywords: perceived stress, salivary cortisol, Framingham Type A Scale, emotional tension, external stress, internal stress.
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Agata Henzel, Agnieszka Siennicka, Maciej Zacharski, Jacek Bania, Ewa A. Jankowska
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