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Coping resources and health responses among men and women medical students

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  • Grossman, Hildreth Y.
  • Salt, Patricia
  • Nadelson, Carol
  • Notman, Malkah

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The structures and pressures of medical education raise particular concerns about how coping resources vary among students as they enter training. Most past studies have focussed on male students. Our data considers the coping and health-related responses of men and women students during the initial phase of their socialization into medicine. Subjects were 179 men and 80 women in entering classes of two medical schools who completed a variety of self-report measures. A multivariate analysis of these data revealed profile differences between men and women on measures of coping and health-related responses. Univariate tests demonstrated sex differences in mastery, number of health symptoms and reliance on alcohol. Men and women, however, showed similarly high esteem and use of social networks. The variation observed between men and women medical students as they begin their training suggests different potential sources of vulnerability. The importance of these findings is to provide a context of initial coping repertoires of men and women medical students for future evaluation of the effects of socialization.

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  • Grossman, Hildreth Y. & Salt, Patricia & Nadelson, Carol & Notman, Malkah, 1987. "Coping resources and health responses among men and women medical students," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 25(9), pages 1057-1062, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:25:y:1987:i:9:p:1057-1062
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