The relationship between social support and professional identity of health professional students from a two-way social support theory perspective: chain mediating effects of achievement motivation and meaning in life

作者：Jian Luo, Xiaobo Liu, Yao Qian, Yi Qu, Jin Yang, Ke Lin, Shirong Pan, Tian-Yi Wang, Yun Dai, Huanyu Chen, Jian‐Min Chen, Zheng Yang · 发表于：BMC Medical Education · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1186/s12909-024-05391-5 · 被引用次数：23 · 研究领域：Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout、Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues、Innovations in Medical Education

BACKGROUND: Studies has suggested that receiving social support improves the professional identity of health professional students. According to the two-way social support theory, social support includes receiving social support and giving social support. However, the effect of the two-way social support on health professional students' professional identity has not been clarified yet. METHODS: To explore the mechanism of how two-way social support affects health professional students' professional identity, an observational, cross-sectional study was conducted among a convenience and cluster sample of 1449 health professional students from two medical schools in western China. Measures included a short version of the two-way social support scale, a health professional students' professional identity questionnaire, an achievement motivation scale, and a meaning in life scale. Data were analyzed by use of SPSS26.0 software and PROCESSv4.0 plug-in. RESULTS: Receiving social support, giving social support, achievement motivation, meaning in life, and professional identity were positively correlated with each other. Receiving and giving social support not only directly predicted health professional students' professional identity, but also indirectly predicted health professional students' professional identity through the mediating roles of achievement motivation and meaning in life, and the chain mediating roles of achievement motivation and meaning in life, respectively. The e...