Inter-relationships between perception of educational environment and learning processes within medical undergraduate psychiatry teaching: a mediational analysis

Figures & data

Table 1. Scores for Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) domains

DREEM domain	Mean (S.D)/Maximum score	Percentage score
SPL	37.68 (4.29)/48	78.5
SPT	37.04 (3.90)/44	84.2
SASP	23.41 (3.15)/32	73.2
SPA	37.75 (4.43)/48	78.6
SSSP	21.08 (2.83)/28	75.3
Total	157.01 (15.86)/200	78.5

Abbreviations: SPL = Student Perception of Learning; SPT = Student Perception of Teachers; SASP = Student Academic Self-Perception; SPA = Student Perception of the Atmosphere of the Learning Environment; SSSP = Student Social Self-Perception.

Table 2. Mean scores for learning domains and overall rating of posting

		Median	IQR
Items about learning	I am more motivated to learn psychiatric disorders	3	1
	I am more engaged in psychiatry	3	1
	I better appreciate relevant psychiatric topics	3	1
	I am better equipped to manage psychiatric conditions	3	1
Overall rating	Overall rating of the posting	3	1

Note: Maximum score is 4.

Abbreviation: IQR = Interquartile range.

Table 3. Pearson correlations among Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) scores, learning processes, and rating of posting

	SPL	SPT	SASP	SPA	SSSP	DREEM
More motivated to learn psychiatric disorders	0.462**	0.377**	0.391**	0.473**	0.419**	0.503**
More engaged with psychiatry	0.470**	0.389**	0.410**	0.489**	0.408**	0.514**
Better appreciation of relevant psychiatric topics	0.433**	0.375**	0.354**	0.450**	0.367**	0.470**
Better equipped at management psychiatric conditions	0.468**	0.360**	0.437**	0.494**	0.388**	0.509**
Overall rating of posting	0.541**	0.455**	0.370**	0.519**	0.456**	0.558**

Note: **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Abbreviations: SPL = Student Perception of Learning; SPT = Student Perception of Teachers; SASP = Student Academic Self-Perception; SPA = Student Perception of the Atmosphere of the Learning Environment; SSSP = Student Social Self-Perception.

Figure 1. Effect of total DREEM score on overall rating of posting with learning processes as parallel mediators

Notes: All indirect effects are reported below the figure, and are completely standardized. *p < .05, ** p < .001.

Figure 2. Relationship between perception of learning environment, specific learning processes and overall rating of posting

Data availability statement

The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.