Limitations
This study is subject to some limitations that may have influenced the results of the study. This study used a selfreported
questionnaire, which may increase the potential of reporting bias, due to personal interpretations of items
in questionnaire. In addition, faculty characteristics and an instructor's teaching style were not taken into
consideration, although it might affect the perceived level of stress. Further, this study did not look at stress levels
associated with the clinical setting itself, which could be a stress related factor in and of itself. A methodological
limitation of this study is that cross-sectional provides information about stress at one point in time, whereas
stress level might be varied at a different time, so longitudinal data collection would be an appropriate
methodology to overcome these limitations. Finally, convenient sampling as well as collecting data from two
universities in Jordan, limits the generalizability of the findings to the sample of this study.