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Perceived sources of stress in the dental school environment
Author(s) -
Westerman GH,
Grandy TG,
Ocanto RA,
Erskine CG
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of dental education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.53
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1930-7837
pISSN - 0022-0337
DOI - 10.1002/j.0022-0337.1993.57.3.tb02732.x
Subject(s) - psychology , curriculum , stress (linguistics) , clinical psychology , family medicine , questionnaire , medicine , dentistry , pedagogy , linguistics , social science , philosophy , sociology
The purpose of this study was to identify the perceived stress of dental students across the entire curriculum (D1–D4 years). The dental environmental stress (DES) questionnaire was administered to 244 (90.4 percent) dental students during 1990. Significant differences were found for 12 questionnaire items across four classes. For male‐female comparisons, significant differences were found for 17 questionnaire items, all perceived as more stressful by females; and between classes, significant differences were accounted for by three questionnaire items. Comparisons with previous dental students (1980s) on the identical questionnaire were noted.