The Relationship of Self-Efficacy on Absorptive Capacity and Well-Being in Medical Students in Southern Thailand
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BACKGROUND: The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in the need to more online medical education. As social interaction becomes limited, medical students probably get emotional exhaustion and burnout. Therefore, they must adapt self-efficacy and absorptive capacity to a new normal that affects their well-being.
OBJECTIVES: The study aims to understand the relationships and influence among self-efficacy, absorptive capacity, and well-being.
METHODS: This study was causal research that collected data in a cross-sectional survey format. The research focused on clinical medical students of universities and Clinical Medical Education Centers in southern Thailand. The stratified sampling framed the selection according to the 4th to 6th-year medical students in equal proportions. The research instrument was a questionnaire administered via e-mail and Google Forms. The researchers obtained 175 respondents surveyed in the last week of September 2022. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to assess the structural models and verified the research hypotheses.
RESULTS: Self-efficacy had a significant positive effect on well-being (β=0.43, t=3.26, p<0.01). Self-efficacy had a significant positive effect on absorptive capacity (β=0.74, t=11.08, p<0.001). Absorptive capacity had a significant positive effect on well-being (β=0.48, t=3.84, p<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Self-efficacy and absorptive capacity have positively direct influences on well-being. Furthermore, self-efficacy also has a positive indirect influence on well-being through absorptive capacity which is a mediator of the relationship. Therefore, the curriculum policy should promote self-efficacy (especially social self-efficacy) and absorptive capacity (especially acquisition process) to increase the well-being of clinical medical students.
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