title: Longitudinal analysis of the effect of academic failure tolerance on academic achievement fluctuation in medical school students.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Academic failure tolerance (AFT) is one of the important psychological concepts in education, but its applications in medical education are rare. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of academic failure tolerance on academic achievement fluctuation among medical school students using a longitudinal research design.
  
  
  METHODS
  The subjects were 43 medical students who responded to the AFT test. This study analyzed the longitudinal data of achievement scores up to the 2nd academic year (2012-2013) among students who were divided into academic achievement improvement and decline groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Comparing the improvement and decline groups' mean academic achievement fluctuation scores demonstrated that behavior and preferred task difficulty showed high scores whereas feeling scores were lower in the improvement group (p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the improvement group, despite the higher negative feeling scores during academic failure, the students favored the more difficult subjects and were more assiduous in their studies. This will form an important basis for enhancing academic achievement among medical students.
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Su Jin
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Chae
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Miran
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Office of Medical Education, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
authors.forename: Ki Hong
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001290:Attitude; D001519:Behavior; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004522:Educational Status; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical
keywords: Academic failure tolerance; Educational status; Motivation
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