* Religious affiliation, quality of life and academic performance: New Zealand medical students.
- The present study investigated the connections between religious affiliation, quality of life (QOL) and measures of academic performance. Participants (n = 275) were recruited from the School of Medicine within a New Zealand university. Religious affiliation was classified according to three subcategories: Christian (n = 104), Eastern religion (n = 34) and non-religious (n = 117). The participants completed the World Health Organisation quality of life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) and the World Health Organisation Spiritual, Religiousness, and Personal Beliefs questionnaire immediately before their lecture time. The main findings of the study indicated that participants from different religious affiliations expressed different spiritual QOL perceptions. However, these different expressions did not translate into their perceptions related to hours of study and academic achievement. In addition, the QOL measures did not relate to academic achievement estimation but did predict hours of study. Greater hours of study were related to greater physical health but lower psychological health and poorer engagement in developing social relationships. Data from a small focus group (n = 4) revealed that these students believed that having a belief system assisted them when coping with the academic learning environment, although little difference could be found between external religious orientations and internal belief systems.
=>新発見の, 新しい, 現代的な, 新参の
Overview of adj new
The adj new has 11 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
1. (310) new -- (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been
made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new
year"; "the New World")
2. (36) fresh, new, novel -- (original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a
completely novel proof of a well-known theorem")
3. (11) raw, new -- (lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw
recruits")
4. (5) new, unexampled -- (having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of
unexampled prosperity")
5. (3) new -- (other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car
is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction")
6. new -- (unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new")
7. newfangled, new -- ((of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys
all these new-fangled machines and never uses them")
8. New -- (in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st
dynasties")
9. Modern, New -- (used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern
English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew")
10. new, young -- ((of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity;
"new potatoes"; "young corn")
11. new -- (unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the
job")
Overview of adv new
The adv new has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (1) newly, freshly, fresh, new -- (very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised
objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor";
"we are fresh out of tomatoes")
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