Attachment anxiety and depressive symptoms in undergraduate medical students : The mediating role of emotion regulation strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Several studies report that medical students are at high risk of depression. Despite the variability in students' vulnerability to depression, the role of individual differences in depression risk among medical students has hardly been investigated. Studies outside of medical student populations have shown that individual differences in attachment style and emotion regulation participate in vulnerability to depression.

Objectives

This study investigates to what extent medical students' depressive symptoms are related to differences in students' insecure attachment styles and their perception of reduced access to emotion regulation strategies.

Methods

In a cross-sectional quantitative study, undergraduate medical students at the beginning of their second a

SUBMITTER: Colonnello V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9391533 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature