1.0 Introduction
Medical education is perceived as stressful and can effect student’s mental health, physical as well as their quality of life. High levels of depression and poor quality of life have been shown in medical students in various studies. Amongst medical students, depression and stress has been reported to be due to academic demands, stress inability to cope, exam, increased psychological pressure, too much work load and mental tension The transition from pre-clinical to clinical training has been identified as a crucial stage of medical school regarding student stress. All this can result in decreased life satisfaction among students. Depression during medical school can lead to problems later in professional life compromising …show more content…
Students with a good sense of self-efficacy are more likely to face themselves with difficult tasks and be essentially motivated. And these students will put onward a high degree of effort in order to meet their commitments, and features failure to things which are in their control, rather than blame the external factors.
According to Bandura self efficacy (1986) is the ability of a person to perceive himself / herself able enough to achieve certain goals. According to researches self efficacy play very important role in academic achievements. Moreover the affect of self efficacy on specific task is more then on general task. According to the Bandura’s theory, people with a strong sense of self-efficacy View challenging problems as tasks to be mastered, Form a stronger sense of commitment to their interests and activities, and recover quickly from dissatisfaction and disappointments. Medical students with high self efficacy are confident to solve educational problem and to select more difficult courses (Zimmerman et.al, 1992).While medical student with low self efficacy will discontinue, they are unable to remove barriers in achieving goals …show more content…
Also, the study indicate that there is a positive relationship between self efficacy and quality of life of medical students, this study found differences between gender, self efficacy and depression. The males have less depressed as compared to females. This may be due to excellent coping strategies adopt by senior students different studies suggested that the high occurrence of depression on females. It may be females are more likely to report concern like feeling of lack of capability and competence and stress due to self expectations. Lower level of depression in fourth year shows that medical students adapt to stress of clinical practice. However, depression again increases in last year of study because of increased
Medical education is perceived as stressful and can effect student’s mental health, physical as well as their quality of life. High levels of depression and poor quality of life have been shown in medical students in various studies. Amongst medical students, depression and stress has been reported to be due to academic demands, stress inability to cope, exam, increased psychological pressure, too much work load and mental tension The transition from pre-clinical to clinical training has been identified as a crucial stage of medical school regarding student stress. All this can result in decreased life satisfaction among students. Depression during medical school can lead to problems later in professional life compromising …show more content…
Students with a good sense of self-efficacy are more likely to face themselves with difficult tasks and be essentially motivated. And these students will put onward a high degree of effort in order to meet their commitments, and features failure to things which are in their control, rather than blame the external factors.
According to Bandura self efficacy (1986) is the ability of a person to perceive himself / herself able enough to achieve certain goals. According to researches self efficacy play very important role in academic achievements. Moreover the affect of self efficacy on specific task is more then on general task. According to the Bandura’s theory, people with a strong sense of self-efficacy View challenging problems as tasks to be mastered, Form a stronger sense of commitment to their interests and activities, and recover quickly from dissatisfaction and disappointments. Medical students with high self efficacy are confident to solve educational problem and to select more difficult courses (Zimmerman et.al, 1992).While medical student with low self efficacy will discontinue, they are unable to remove barriers in achieving goals …show more content…
Also, the study indicate that there is a positive relationship between self efficacy and quality of life of medical students, this study found differences between gender, self efficacy and depression. The males have less depressed as compared to females. This may be due to excellent coping strategies adopt by senior students different studies suggested that the high occurrence of depression on females. It may be females are more likely to report concern like feeling of lack of capability and competence and stress due to self expectations. Lower level of depression in fourth year shows that medical students adapt to stress of clinical practice. However, depression again increases in last year of study because of increased