The moderating effect of social resources on the link between study-related stressors and depressive symptoms among medical students in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – a cross-sectional study

Table 3 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients (N = 224)

	gender¹	Academic performance	Clinical practice	Faculty relations	Depressive symptoms	Social support professor	Social support fellow students	Social identity	Dual identity
Academic performance	-.22 ^**	-
Clinical practice	-.31 ^**	.38 ^**	-
Faculty relations	-.03	.45 ^**	.32 ^**	-
Depressive symptoms	-14 ^*	.43 ^**	.36 ^**	.38 ^**	-
Social support professors	.001	-.22 ^**	-.22 ^**	-.38 ^**	-.25 ^**	-
Social support fellow students	.01	-.37 ^**	-.28 ^**	-.27 ^**	-.36 ^**	.26 ^**	-
Social identity	.03	-.20 ^**	-.16 ^*	-.16 ^*	-.22 ^**	.23 ^**	.40 ^**	-
Dual identity	.06	-.25 ^**	-.20 ^*	-.20 ^**	-.24 ^**	.11	.21 ^**	.25 ^**	-
Status	-.002	-.30 ^**	-.19 ^*	-.18 ^**	-.07	.00	.17 ^*	.13 ^*	.24 ^**

Notes: p-value (significance; two-tailed): + = .05 < … < .1
^* p-value < .05
^** p-value < .01; academic performance, clinical practice and faculty relations were measured as study-related stressors; ¹ female = 1, male = 2

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