The mediating role of mindfulness between professional identity and positive emotions among medical students
Objective To explore the mediating role of mindfulness between professional identity and positive emotions among medical students.Methods From February to April 2022,a total of 878 under-graduates from a medical school in Shandong Province were selected by cluster sampling method.The medi-cal professional identity questionnaire,positive and negative affective scale,and mindful attention awareness scale were utilized for cross-sectional investigation.SPSS 22.0 software was used for descriptive and correla-tion analysis,and AMOS 25.0 software was used to test the mediating effect.Results(1)The scores for medical students'professional identity,positive emotions,and mindfulness were 140.00(125.00,150.00),30.00(28.00,35.00),and 52.00(44.00,63.00),respectively.The dimension scores of occupational cognition,occupational emotion,occupational commitment,occupational behavior,occupational expectation and occupational sense of value in the medical professional identity questionnaire were 23.00(20.00,25.00),19.00(16.00,20.00),19.00(16.00,21.00),16.00(13.00,16.00),32.00(28.00,36.00),and 31.00(29.00,34.00),respectively.(2)The total and dimension scores of professional identity,positive e-motions,and mindfulness were significantly and positively correlated with each other(r=0.125-0.390,all P＜0.001).(3)Mindfulness partially mediated the relationship between professional identity and positive emo-tions(effect size=0.02,95％CI=0.01-0.04),and the mediating effect accounted for 4.76％(0.02/0.42)of the total effect.Conclusion Professional identity can directly affect the positive emotions of medical students,and indirectly affect the positive emotions through the mediating role of mindfulness.
MindfulnessPositive emotionsProfessional identityMediating roleMedical students
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