TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Parental Support, Personality, Self-Efficacy and Depression among Medical Students
JO  - Procedia - social and behavioral sciences
A1  - Mustafa, Muhammad Bazlan
A1  - Nasir, Rohany
A1  - Yusooff, Fatimah
SP  - 419
EP  - 424
VL  - 7
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N2  - This study aimed to determine the relationships between parental support, personality and self-efficacy with depression among medical students. Subjects for this study were 1,029 medical students from seven Higher Learning Institutions in Peninsular Malaysia. The questionnaires used were: Career-Related Parent Support Scale (CRPSS), NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R), College Self-Efficacy Instrument (CSEI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for measuring parental support, personality, self-efficacy and depression. The results of the Pearson's correlation analysis showed that there were significant negative relationships between parental support, Extraversion, Conscientiousness and self-efficacy with depression. A significant positive correlation between Neuroticism with depression was also found.<p />
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SN  - 1877-0428
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.10.057
ID  - ref1
ER  -