Background

Psychological distress such as anxiety of medical students especially during the first-year has been widely acknowledged. However, many students could exhibit post-traumatic growth when experiencing anxiety. Previous study demonstrated that anxiety might have impacts on post-traumatic growth, but how anxiety affects post-traumatic growth is still undefined. This study sought to examine whether resilience has a moderating role between state and trait anxiety and post-traumatic growth when medical freshmen are experiencing stressful events.

Methods

A total of 295 medical freshmen were administered the Post Traumatic Growth Inventory, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale.

Results

Post-traumatic growth was negatively correlated with state anxiety and trait anxiety, with a correlation coefficient of −0.474 and −0.462 (p < 0.01), and positively correlated with resilience, with a correlation coefficient of 0.635 (p < 0.01). Resilience acted as a moderator for the indirect effect of state and trait anxiety on post-traumatic growth.

Conclusions

These findings demonstrated resilience could be of extreme importance for developing post-traumatic growth, and therapeutic interventions tailored to the medical freshmen to promote their resilience to adapt to life in college.

中文翻译：

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心理弹性在医学新生状态与特质焦虑与创伤后成长关系中的调节作用

背景

医学生尤其是一年级学生的焦虑等心理困扰已得到广泛认可。然而，许多学生在经历焦虑时可能会表现出创伤后成长。先前的研究表明，焦虑可能会对创伤后的成长产生影响，但焦虑如何影响创伤后的成长仍不清楚。本研究旨在检验当医学新生经历压力事件时，复原力是否在状态和特质焦虑与创伤后成长之间具有调节作用。

方法

共有 295 名医学新生接受了创伤后成长量表、状态-特质焦虑量表和康纳-戴维森复原力量表。

结果

创伤后成长与状态焦虑和特质焦虑呈负相关，相关系数分别为-0.474和-0.462（p  < 0.01），与复原力呈正相关，相关系数为0.635（p  < 0.01）。复原力对状态和特质焦虑对创伤后成长的间接影响起到调节作用。

结论

这些研究结果表明，复原力对于发展创伤后成长以及为医学新生量身定制的治疗干预措施以提高他们适应大学生活的复原力可能具有极其重要的意义。