Associations among positive childhood experiences, resilience, and psychological distress in health professions students
ThanhThanh Vo, Jeffrey Duong, Cara Sandholdt, Elizabeth Rice, Karl Jandrey, Margaret Rea, Michael Wilkes, Andrés F Sciolla · 2026
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ThanhThanh Vo and co-authors test, in a 2026 study, whether resilience carries the protective effect of positive childhood experiences into lower distress for health professions students. Good early experiences are thought to buffer later mental health, and these students, drawn from medicine, nursing, physician assistant, and veterinary programs, face heavy training stress.
Wave three of a longitudinal survey supplied 181 respondents who completed measures of childhood experiences, resilience, and well-being. As expected, more positive childhood experiences went with greater resilience, and it went with less distress, and childhood experiences also related to distress directly. That indirect step, however, was not significant. The authors conclude the two factors seem to protect on their own. They urge schools to spot students with thin positive histories and support well-being head-on rather than counting on resilience alone.
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| CREATOR | ThanhThanh Vo, Jeffrey Duong, Cara Sandholdt, Elizabeth Rice, Karl Jandrey, Margaret Rea, Michael Wilkes, Andrés F Sciolla |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27702 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |