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: Received: 5 July 2020 / Approved: 7 July 2020 / Online: 7 July 2020 (08:08:20 CEST)
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Pehlivanidis, A.; Pehlivanidi, N.; Papanikolaou, K.; Mantas, V.; Bertou, E.; Chalimourdas, T.; Sypsa, V.; Papageorgiou, C. The Emotion of Disgust among Medical and Psychology Students. Preprints2020, 2020070111. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0111.v1
Pehlivanidis, A.; Pehlivanidi, N.; Papanikolaou, K.; Mantas, V.; Bertou, E.; Chalimourdas, T.; Sypsa, V.; Papageorgiou, C. The Emotion of Disgust among Medical and Psychology Students. Preprints 2020, 2020070111. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0111.v1
Pehlivanidis, A.; Pehlivanidi, N.; Papanikolaou, K.; Mantas, V.; Bertou, E.; Chalimourdas, T.; Sypsa, V.; Papageorgiou, C. The Emotion of Disgust among Medical and Psychology Students. Preprints2020, 2020070111. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0111.v1
APA Style
Pehlivanidis, A., Pehlivanidi, N., Papanikolaou, K., Mantas, V., Bertou, E., Chalimourdas, T., Sypsa, V., & Papageorgiou, C. (2020). The Emotion of Disgust among Medical and Psychology Students. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0111.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Pehlivanidis, A., Vana Sypsa and Charalambos Papageorgiou. 2020 "The Emotion of Disgust among Medical and Psychology Students" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202007.0111.v1
Abstract
Disgust evolved as a way to protect one’s self from illness. DS-R measures disgust propensity of three kinds of disgust (Core, Animal Reminder and Contamination). Although the DS-R scale was refined mainly with young and largely female student population its impact on educational orientation has not been assessed. In the present study we examined the DS-R scoring and the choice of postgraduate studies in medical (n= 94) and psychology (n= 97) students. They responded to an anonymous web-based survey and completed the DS-R and a questionnaire on their demographics and plans for postgraduate studies. Female students outnumbered males (3:1) and scored higher in Total DS-R score (median: 59 vs. 50, p<0.05). Psychology students scored higher in all three kinds of disgust (p<0.05), indicating a higher level of disease avoidance. Medical students willing to follow Internal Medicine scored higher in Core Disgust (p<0.05) while psychology students willing to study Experimental Psychology scored lower in Animal Reminder subscale (p<0.001). Also, the higher the psychology students scored in Core Disgust scale the higher was the probability to choose Experimental Psychology. In conclusion, disgust propensity as rated by DS-R differentiates medical from psychology students and is also related to orientation preferences in postgraduate studies.
Keywords
disgust; DS-R; medical students; psychology students; academic orientation; specialization
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health
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