Physical Therapy Students' Stress Response After Practical Training: Focus on the Stress Event and Resilience

[Purpose] In this study we examined the relationship between interpersonal stress events during practical training and students' stress responses after practical training, to clarify the relationships between interpersonal stress events and protective factors of resilience. [Subjects] The subjects were fifty-eight physical therapy students. [Method] Three weeks after two practical training, sessions separated by 3 months we performed surveys of the students using the psychological stress response scale, the interpersonal stress event scale and the resilience scale. [Results] The interpersonal inferiority complex, which is a subscale of the interpersonal stress event scale, significantly correlated with the stress response scale. Significant correlations were also found among the resilience scale, the psychological stress response scale and the interpersonal stress event scale. [Conclusion] The results of this study show that after practical training, the levels of students' stress responses were still influenced by the interpersonal stress events that they experienced during practical training. Students' traits of resilience will support recovery from the interpersonal stress events during practical training and reduce interpersonal inferiority complex and interpersonal dislocation.