The impact of resilience on academic performance with a focus on mature learners.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Resilience is an essential psychological trait that empowers individuals to adapt and thrive in the face of challenges. Although it is acknowledged that health professionals need to possess high levels of resilience, there has been limited research comparing how different groups of health students, particularly school leaver undergraduates and mature age graduate entry students, develop resilience in their coursework.

Methods

This study combines both objective (academic grades with validated survey results) and subjective data (interviews) to compare how resilience is related to academic coursework performance for two groups of pharmacy students: the mature age graduate entry (GE, N = 64) learners and school leaver undergraduate (UG, N = 208) learners. We employed

SUBMITTER: Steel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11460116 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature