Perceived Stress, Resilience and Subjective Wellbeing among Medical Students

Abstract

The current study was intended to explore the relationship between Perceived Stress, Resilience and Subjective Well-being among Medical Students. The sample of the study consisted of 300 medical students with age range 18-25 years (M= 20.00 & SD= 1.34). Sample was collected through convenient sampling technique, from various government and private medical colleges across Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Three measures were used in the current study for measuring the study variables i.e. Perceived Stress Scale (PSS 10) for assessing Perceived Stress, Brief Resilience Scale (BRS) for assessing Resilience, and Flourishing Scale (FS) for assessing Subjective Well-being among medical students. Results indicate that there is a negative relationship between Perceived Stress and Subjective Well-being (r=-.46, p<0.01) and positive relationship between Resilience and Subjective Well-being (r=.31, p<0.01) There is a significant gender difference i.e. female medical students showed higher Perceived Stress than male students (M=21.07, SD=6.18). Limitations and future recommendations are also discussed.