Qualitative Interviews on Psychological Resilience in Medical Vocational College Freshmen

24 semi-structured interviews with medical vocational college freshmen, conducted between January and February 2025, explore psychological resilience. The study, authored by Zhefu Zhang and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, identified three macrothemes: challenges eroding resilience, support aiding recovery, and cognition enabling maintenance. The dataset is a 28.1 KB document containing the qualitative analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyzing themes of academic and interpersonal stress based on the described 'Challenges' macrotheme.
• Modeling factors of resilience recovery based on described internal and external support systems.
• Developing educational support strategies based on the identified cognitive factors for maintaining resilience.

Strengths

• Data collection is explicitly defined, using a purposive sample of 24 participants and semi-structured interviews.
• Analysis followed a specific qualitative method, the Colaizzi descriptive analysis method.
• The dataset is openly shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 28.1 KB, indicating limited scope and likely a summary document rather than raw interview transcripts.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the structure and granularity of the data must be inferred after download.
• The description does not specify the geographic or institutional origin of the participants, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Zhefu Zhang, via figshare.

Collection Method

Purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews, analyzed with Colaizzi's descriptive phenomenological method.

Time Range

Data collected between January 2025 and February 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 05:39:20.