Title Chapter 2. Is medical training solely to blame? Generational influences on the mental health of our medical trainees Summary In chapter 2, we highlighted ‘Generations Y and Z’ as the most prevalent generations in postgraduate and undergraduate medical training, respectively. We explored the generational and job-related characteristics and their associations with mental health outcomes during medical training. The research question that guided this study was: How are the generational and job-related characteristics associated with the trainees’ levels of stress, burnout, depression, and resilience? A cross-sectional study was conducted among medical trainees (students and residents) using a self-administered online survey that included validated measures for trainees’ social media overuse, their parent’s parenting style, the educational support by the clinical teacher, job (demands, control, and support), and work-life balance. We then explored their relationship with the trainees’ stress, burnout, depression, and resilience Description of the attached file This is the data collected through administering the survey which consisted of three sections. The first section addressed the trainee’s level (student/ resident) and questions about gender, age, nationality, marital status, spouse employment status and the number of children (if any), years in training, living conditions, and maternal and paternal educational levels. The second section included the independent variables, the generational situatedness factors that were assessed using the Helicopter Parenting Instrument, a combined social media overuse (SMO) scale, the Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ), the Maastricht Clinical Training Questionnaire (MCTQ), and Work-life Balance (WLB).