The Development of a Mental Toughness Scale for Doctors: A Psychometric Study

IF 0.1 Q4 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Journal of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Pub Date : 2019-09-30 DOI:10.22442/jlumhs.191830630

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To develop a scale of mental toughness among medical doctors.METHODOLOGY: In the current study Mixed-Method research design was used, qualitative design was used to elicit the items for mental toughness and quantitative was used to establish psychometrics. This study was carried out in Govt. hospitals of Lahore. The study was carried out from August 2018-April 2019. The construct of mental toughness was explored from 20 post graduate residents and house offi-cers (10 men and 10 women) through a semi structured interview. After excluding the repetition finalist of 40 items was further validated by 10 experts and based on the 50% agreement from the experts, a list of 30 items was finalized and piloted on 40 doctors (20 men and 20 women) for assessing user friendli-ness. Finally, a sample of two hundred doctors (100 men and 100 Women) between the ages of 22 to 36 (M =26.17, SD =1.83) from different Government. Hospitals of Lahore were given Mental Toughness Scale, Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21) along with a Demographic form.RESULTS: Exploratory factor analysis through varimax rotation yielded three factors solution named as Determination, Resilience and Optimism. The MTS was found to have sound psychometric properties as split half reliability was .74 test, retest reliability was .75. CONCLUSION: Mental toughness scale was found high psychometric properties; results were discussed in term of counseling and enhancing positive strengths in medical doctors. KEY WORDS: Mental toughness, Culture, Medical doctors, Scale, Mental health

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医生心理韧性量表的编制:一项心理测量学研究

目的:编制医师心理韧性量表。方法:本研究采用混合方法研究设计，采用定性设计引出心理韧性项目，采用定量设计建立心理测量量表。这项研究是在拉合尔的政府医院进行的。该研究于2018年8月至2019年4月进行。通过半结构化访谈，对20名研究生住院医师和住院部工作人员(男10名，女10名)的心理韧性结构进行了探讨。在排除重复的40个项目后，由10位专家进一步验证，并在专家50%的同意度的基础上，最终确定了30个项目的清单，并在40名医生(20名男性和20名女性)中进行试点，以评估用户友好性。最后，来自不同政府的200名医生(100名男性和100名女性)，年龄在22至36岁之间(M =26.17, SD =1.83)。对拉合尔各医院进行了心理韧性量表、抑郁、焦虑、压力量表(DASS-21)以及人口统计表格。结果:通过变量旋转进行探索性因子分析，得到决心、韧性和乐观三个因子解。MTS具有良好的心理测量特性，分半信度为0.74，重测信度为0.75。结论:心理韧性量表具有较高的心理测量性质;从心理咨询和提高医生的积极优势两方面对结果进行了探讨。关键词:心理韧性，文化，医生，量表，心理健康

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Journal of the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES-

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0.30

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20 weeks

期刊介绍： Journal of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (JLUMHS) Jamshoro, Pakistan publishes original manuscripts, case reports and reviews on topics related to medical and health sciences. JLUMHS is a peer reviewed journal and is published quarterly (4 issues per year) since July 2002. It agrees to accept manuscripts prepared in accordance with the “Uniform Requirements for submission of manuscripts for biomedical journals adopted by International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), updated October 2001 (Refer JLUMHS July – December 2002 issue).