Parental care and depressive symptoms among Chinese medical students: roles of empathy and gender

Abstract Background Medical students in China who face the dual pressure of study and employment tend to experience subclinical depressive symptoms. Parental care plays an important direct and indirect role in the psychological development of medical students, and the extent and mechanism of this ro...

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Main Authors: Yiran Geng, Wenjing Fei, Zhengyu Tang, Shaishai Wang, Jiachun Yu, Ming Zhang, Tianyang Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-06-01
Series:BMC Medical Education
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-022-03524-2