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Depressed Mood and Career Anchors in Russian Medical Students
Evgeniy B. Knyazev
Cand.Sci. (Psychol.), Associate Professor of the Chair of Pedagogy, Educational Technologies and Professional Communication, V. I. Razumovsky Saratov SMU MOH Russia (112 Bolshaya Kazachya St., Saratov 410012, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6646-6247, Researcher ID: AAD-3454-2021, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Valentina A. Solovyova
Cand.Sci. (Ped.), Senior Teacher of the Chair of Pedagogy, Educational Technologies and Professional Communication, V. I. Razumovsky Saratov SMU MOH Russia (112 Bolshaya Kazachya St., Saratov 410012, Russian Federation), Associate Professor of the Chair of Materials Science, Technology and Quality Management, Saratov State University (83 Astrakhanskaya St., Saratov 410012, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5016-4009, Scopus ID: 57211062948, Researcher ID: E-8180-2017, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Andrey S. Sergeev
Cand.Sci. (Philol.), Associate Professor of the Chair of Pedagogy, Educational Technologies and Professional Communication, V. I. Razumovsky Saratov SMU MOH Russia (112 Bolshaya Kazachya St., Saratov 410012, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4076-086X, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Marina I. Barsukova
Cand.Sci. (Philol.), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Chair of Pedagogy, Educational Technologies and Professional Communication, V. I. Razumovsky Saratov SMU MOH Russia (112 Bolshaya Kazachya St., Saratov 410012, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5277-8090, Scopus ID: 57188856031, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Anita Y. Ramazanova
Senior Teacher of the Chair of Pedagogy, Educational Technologies and Professional Communication, V. I. Razumovsky Saratov SMU MOH Russia (112 Bolshaya Kazachya St., Saratov 410012, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1159-572X, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Natalia P. Inozemtseva
Private Practice, Independent Researcher (Saratov, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1562-2609, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ludmila V. Dolgova
Resident Doctor, N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (1 Ostrovityanova St., Moscow 117997, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2362-7094, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
Introduction. People in helping professions are more prone to emotional burnout and depression. Even at the university level, future physicians experience an increase in depressed mood. Despite the fact that this problem has been studied quite extensively, the role of socio-cognitive factors has not yet been studied enough. The purpose of this research is to fill this gap and explore the relationship between career anchors and the level of depressed mood among Russian medical students.
Materials and Methods. The survey was conducted in 2020 and 2021. The sample of the survey included 864 students of the SSMU named after V. I. Razumovsky. Methods used in the survey: the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), adapted by T. I. Balashova and the diagnosis of career anchors, using Schein’s Career Orientations Inventory (COI) in the adaptation of V. A. Chiker. Data analysis methods: Shapiro‒Wilk and Fligner‒Killeen tests, Wilcoxon‒Mann‒Whitney and Nemenyi tests, and biweightmidcorrelation analysis. The search for predictors of depressed mood was carried out using the method of generalized additive models.
Results. Career anchors are predictors of depressed mood. Service orientation and professional competence reduce the severity of depressed mood, while the relationship is non-linear. The desire of students to integrate different areas of their lives and organize the activities of other people is negatively associated with depressed mood, but the relationship is linear. The severity of depressed mood is exacerbated by career anchoring on autonomy.
Discussion and Conclusion. The results of the study contribute to the understanding of the complex relationship between depressiveness and socio-cognitive factors. The results of this study can be instrumental in the development of a set of measures reducing the risk of depression in medical professionals by studying at a university.
Keywords: medical student, career anchors, depressed mood, socio-cognitive factors, socio-demographic factors
Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
For citation: Knyazev E.B., Solovyova V.A., Sergeev A.S., Barsukova M.I., Ramazanova A.Ya., Inozemtseva N.P., Dolgova L.V. Depressed Mood and Career Anchors in Russian Medical Students. Integration of Education. 2023;27(2):309–324. https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.111.027.202302.309-324
All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Submitted 25.11.2022; revised 07.02.2023;
accepted 14.02.2023.
Author contribution:
E. B. Knyazev – contribution to research conception; defining of goals and hypotheses; literature review; statistical analysis of data.
V. A. Solovyova – work on the sections Discussion and Conclusion and Literature Review; verification of the results of statistical analysis.
A. S. Sergeev – critical revision of the article.
M. I. Barsukova – conducting a survey; data collection.
A. Ya. Ramazanova – analysis of foreign language material on the subject under consideration.
N. P. Inozemtseva – drawing conclusions and results.
L. V. Dolgova – conducting a survey; data collection
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