Relationships among personality characteristics, interpersonal trust, and subjective well-being of medical students
Online published: 2015-01-29
Supported by
Foundation of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Plan of Ministry of Education, 12YJAZH111; Key Project of Humanities and Social Sciences of Department of Education of Anhui Province, SK2013A111; Key Project of Soft Science in Technology Department of Anhui Province, RKX1402052051; Science and Technology Project of Bengbu Medical College, BYKF12A28SK
Objective To investigate the relationship between personality characteristics and subjective well-being of medical students and the mediating effect of interpersonal trust on the relationship. Methods A total of 1 519 medical students were surveyed by the Eysenck Personality Characteristics Scale, Interpersonal Trust Scale, and the Subjective Well-being Scale. Results The difference of scores of subjective well-being of male and female students was not statistically significant (t=-0.24, P>0.05). The scores of interpersonal trust of male students were significantly lower than those of female students (t=-2.68, P<0.01). Comparisons of different grades showed that the scores of subjective well-being of freshmen were significantly higher than those of sophomores and juniors (F=38.36, P<0.001). The scores of interpersonal trust of sophomores were significantly higher than those of freshmen and juniors (F=8.07, P<0.001). The interpersonal trust negatively correlated with psychoticism, extraversion, and subjective well-being (r=-0.089, r=-0.144, r=-0.122; P<0.05 or P<0.001) and positively correlated with neuroticism (r=0.163, P<0.001). The subjective well-being negatively correlated with psychoticism and neuroticism (r=-0.127, r=-0.348; P<0.001) and positively correlated with extraversion (r=0.171, P<0.001). The psychoticism and neuroticism negatively predicted the subjective well-being; the extroversion significantly and positively predicted the subjective well-being; the psychoticism and extraversion negatively predicted the interpersonal trust; the neuroticism positively predicted the interpersonal trust; and the interpersonal trust significantly and negatively predicted the subjective well-being (F=76.231, 21.253, 58.565 and R2=0.131, 0.041, 0.134, respectively). Conclusion The interpersonal trust partially mediates the relationship of personality characteristics and subjective well-being of medical students.
YANG Xiu-mu , SHEN Zheng-fu , QI Yu-long , et al . Relationships among personality characteristics, interpersonal trust, and subjective well-being of medical students[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Medical Science), 2015 , 35(1) : 102 . DOI: 11.3969/j.issn.1674-8115.2015.01.020
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