Impacts of a gross anatomy laboratory course on medical students’ emotional reactions in Taiwan: the role of high-level emotions

Table 5 Descriptive statistics and repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) of the three emotions at three time points and self-perceived conditions

	Time 1		Time 2		Time 3		Repeated-measures ANOVA
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	F	df	p
Negative emotions	3.00	0.89	2.54	0.91	2.36	0.90	22.62	2,160	< 0.001
High-level emotions	5.68	0.83	5.95	0.81	5.99	0.95	6.05	2,160	< 0.001
Excited emotions	4.39	1.04	5.02	1.02	4.77	1.20	15.96	2,160	< 0.001
Self-perceived condition	1.67	0.71

Emotions were rated by the Emotional Reactions Towards Cadavers Scale with a Likert-type scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree)
SD standard deviation

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