Medical Students’ Experience of and Reaction to Stress: The Role of Depression and Anxiety

Table 5

Difference between anxious and non-anxious students’ stressors and reaction to stressors.

Subscales	Nonanxious	Anxious	𝑡 (356)	𝑃 value
	M (Sd)	M (Sd)
Stressors
Frustration	17.98 (5.06)	19.21 (4.61)	−2.406	0.018*
Conflict	8.46 (2.32)	8.75 (2.23)	−1.204	0.229
Pressure	12.89 (3.28)	13.72 (3.20)	−2.402	0.017*
Changes	7.99 (2.88)	8.64 (2.52)	−2.230	0.026*
Self-imposed	20.57 (4.19)	21.22 (4.36)	−1.437	0.152
Total stressors score	67.99 (12.94)	71.59 (12.09)	−2.714	0.007*
Reaction to stressors
Physiological	30.96 (11.38)	34.19 (9.74)	−2.895	0.004*
Emotional	11.89 (3.88)	12.75 (3.25)	−2.285	0.023*
Behavioural	16.11 (5.11)	16.79 (5.49)	−1.179	0.239
Cognitive appraisal	6.78 (1.97)	7.04 (1.86)	−1.290	0.198
Total reaction to stressors score	65.72 (17.90)	70.76 (5.50)	−2.807	0.005*

^∗𝑃 value less than 0.05 was defined as significant.