Purpose/objectives
Emotional intelligence (EI) supports the clinical and social competencies of a practicing dentist. Reuven Bar‐On's EI model is an array of inter‐related emotional and social ...competencies, skills, and behaviors, which consist of five key domains: Self‐Perception, Self‐Expression, Interpersonal, Decision Making, and Stress Management, and associated with the domains are 15 emotional quotient (EQ) subskills. This study measured the impact of COVID‐19 on dental students' EI by comparing measures pre‐COVID‐19 and during COVID‐19 matriculation.
Methods
This retrospective longitudinal study measured EI with the EQ‐i 2.0 for higher education. Dental students completed an EQ‐i 2.0 assessment (Attempt) at the beginning of matriculation, at the mid‐point, and prior to graduation. Ten groups were included, of which the first three completed matriculation prior to the pandemic and the remaining seven matriculated during timeframes intersecting at different times during the pandemic. A paired t‐test dependent sample of means (p ≤ 0.05) compared EQ scores for each attempt for all groups. The study compared means for three EQ attempts with the t‐test independent sample of means (p ≤ 0.05) for cohorts matriculating pre‐COVID‐19 and during COVID‐19.
Results
The pre‐COVID‐19 groups showed significant increases in EQ with each subsequent attempt. COVID‐19‐impacted groups demonstrated significant increase in Stress Tolerance and significant decreases, most notably in the domains of Interpersonal and Self‐Perception, and subscales of Optimism and Happiness.
Conclusion(s)
COVID‐19‐related stressors impacted dental students’ EI as multiple EI areas declined significantly. Dental educators should minimize organizational stressors and support EI during years 2 and 3 of matriculation.
The versatility of RHIC allowed the PHENIX collaboration to measure low momentum direct photons from small systems, such as p+p, p+A, d+Au at sNN=200GeV as well as from large A+A systems, such as ...Au+Au and Cu+Cu at 200GeV and Au+Au at 62.4GeV and 39GeV. In these measurements PHENIX has discovered a large excess over the scaled p+p yield of direct photons in A+A collisions, and a non-zero excess over the scaled p+p yield in central p+A collisions. Another PHENIX discovery is that at low-pT the integrated yield of direct photons, dNγ/dy, from large systems follows a universal scaling as a function of the charged-particle multiplicity, (dNch/dη)α, with α = 1.25. The observed scaling properties of direct photons from these systems show that the photon production yield increases faster than the charged-particle multiplicity.
Quarkonium suppression in nucleus-nucleus collisions is a powerful tool to probe the density and temperature of the medium created in heavy ion collisions. Forward rapidity measurements in p(d)+Au ...collisions are essential to understand how quarkonium states are affected by initial state effects, formation time, and local particle multiplicity. Earlier measurements in Au+Au collisions showed a stronger suppression of forward J/ψ compared to mid-rapidity results, indicating the possibility of a smaller contribution of regenerated quarkonium states at forward rapidity. These proceedings report on the latest quarkonium studies performed by the PHENIX collaboration in the rapidity range 1.2<|y|<2.2.
At the Quark Matter 2018 conference, the PHENIX Collaboration gave 10 parallel talks and 19 posters on a wide variety of topics in small and large systems. In these proceedings we discuss a few key ...results shown at the conference.
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