Authors:
Bania Maulina
1
;
Saiful Batubara
2
and
Gita Kurnia Sari
2
Affiliations:
1
Psychology (Departement of Behavioral Science),Faculty of Medicine, UISU, Department of medical education, Faculty of Medicine, UISU
;
2
Keyword(s):
Adversity Intelligence (AI), Level of Stress, Medical Student, Co-Assistants
Abstract:
The role of AI as intelligence is related to coping, after turning out, not only appearance in business/ organization, but also in educational institutions (Stoltz, 2004, Alka, 2012). In education, AI plays significant role when individuals are faced with various challenges, such as learning process (Matore, 2015). The various studies have shown that medical students experienced stress higher than those of non-medical students. Furthermore, the previous research showed that stress level of co-assistants were higher than that of preclinical student. The stressful events were also related to individual responses to adversity encountered. Some individuals became discouraged, but others felt excited and assumed the event as a challenge. Stoltz (2004) states that each individual has a different response when faced with hardship. Basically, it was closely related to AI’s concept. This study involved thirty co-assistants, conducted to find out the relationship between AI and stress level.
The AI-scale adopted from Arisandi (2011) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale 42 (DAS-42) were used to collect relevant data. Data were analyzed by using Pearson Product Moment correlation test. The results showed that there was significant negative correlation between AI and stress level with p value of 0.002 (p <0.05) and r value of -0.543.
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