This study aimed to describe how, why and to what extent psychology students self-diagnose and wh... more This study aimed to describe how, why and to what extent psychology students self-diagnose and what impact this has on their lives, using an in-depth qualitative exploration. A sample of 8 students were taken and interviews were administered on them. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted on the results, revealing four global themes. These were: Causes of Self-Diagnosis, Methods of Self-Diagnosis, Effects of Self-Diagnosis and Academic Maturity. It was concluded that students self-diagnose based on earlier experiences as well as psychological information they learn in an academic setting and introspection methods. Factors such as schematic thinking played a role in self-diagnosis and it had positive and negative effects, which can be classified as cognitive, affective and behavioural effects. Academic Maturity was seen to be a protective factor against the negative effects of self-diagnosis.
Self-diagnosis is the appropriation of behavior as symptoms and labelling oneself with a disorder... more Self-diagnosis is the appropriation of behavior as symptoms and labelling oneself with a disorder without consulting a professional. Teaching methods refer to frameworks through which the teacher organizes meaningful academic interactions with students and orients themselves and the class to the psychopathology paper. This study sought to explore both these ideas to see various elements of teaching and identified specific teaching methods and their relative contribution to self-diagnosis. It is a follow-up study to Ahmed and Stephen (2017) and used the same sample, which consisted of six psychology students. Thematic network analysis was used on the data obtained from semi-structured retrospective interviews. The results identified two specific teaching methods: 1) subjective-relational method, which refers to relating symptoms of pathology to real life experiences and 2) objective-systematic, which refers to a scientific, systematic disorder focused approach. The objective-systemat...
This study aimed to describe how, why and to what extent psychology students self-diagnose and wh... more This study aimed to describe how, why and to what extent psychology students self-diagnose and what impact this has on their lives, using an in-depth qualitative exploration. A sample of 8 students were taken and interviews were administered on them. Inductive thematic analysis was conducted on the results, revealing four global themes. These were: Causes of Self-Diagnosis, Methods of Self-Diagnosis, Effects of Self-Diagnosis and Academic Maturity. It was concluded that students self-diagnose based on earlier experiences as well as psychological information they learn in an academic setting and introspection methods. Factors such as schematic thinking played a role in self-diagnosis and it had positive and negative effects, which can be classified as cognitive, affective and behavioural effects. Academic Maturity was seen to be a protective factor against the negative effects of self-diagnosis.
Self-diagnosis is the appropriation of behavior as symptoms and labelling oneself with a disorder... more Self-diagnosis is the appropriation of behavior as symptoms and labelling oneself with a disorder without consulting a professional. Teaching methods refer to frameworks through which the teacher organizes meaningful academic interactions with students and orients themselves and the class to the psychopathology paper. This study sought to explore both these ideas to see various elements of teaching and identified specific teaching methods and their relative contribution to self-diagnosis. It is a follow-up study to Ahmed and Stephen (2017) and used the same sample, which consisted of six psychology students. Thematic network analysis was used on the data obtained from semi-structured retrospective interviews. The results identified two specific teaching methods: 1) subjective-relational method, which refers to relating symptoms of pathology to real life experiences and 2) objective-systematic, which refers to a scientific, systematic disorder focused approach. The objective-systemat...
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