ArticleBMC medical education2025
Influence of psychological capital on the research ability of master's degree students in medical academic degrees: the mediating role of research investment and the moderating role of mentorship guidance.
Article in BMC medical education, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundResearch ability is a key indicator for assessing the quality of training and academic competitiveness among postgraduate students in medical academic programs. Psychological capital, as an important positive psychological resource, has not yet been systematically investigated in terms of its influence mechanism on research ability within the context of medical postgraduate education.
methodsThis study employed convenience sampling. Between June and July 2023, an online questionnaire survey was conducted among 3,892 medical academic master's students from 70 Chinese universities through the Sojump online platform. Hierarchical regression and moderated mediation analyses were performed via SPSS 27.0 and the PROCESS macro (version 4.1).
resultsPsychological capital not only significantly and positively predicts the research ability of medical academic master's students but also has an indirect effect via research investment. Moreover, mentorship guidance plays a dual moderating role in this mediation process: it strengthens the impact of psychological capital on research investment (β = 0.031, P < 0.05) and increases the efficiency of converting research investment into research ability (β = 0.053, P < 0.01).
conclusionsPsychological Capital and Mentorship Guidance play a crucial role in enhancing Research Investment and Research Ability among Master of Medical Studies students. This empirical study enriches the evidence base on the mechanisms through which positive psychological resources promote research competence, provides a foundation for strengthening graduate medical education through policies centered on Psychological Capital and Mentorship Guidance, and offers both theoretical insights and practical implications for optimizing the cultivation model of scientific research talent.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.