Table 4.
Specialty Choice Preference of Medical Students according to Personality Traits
| No. | Personality traits |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extraversion |
Conscientiousness |
Agreeableness |
Neuroticism |
Openness |
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| Mean±SD | p-value | Mean±SD | p-value | Mean±SD | p-value | Mean±SD | p-value | Mean±SD | p-value | ||
| Medical partsa) | |||||||||||
| Clinical medicine | 99 | 6.162±1.25 | 0.497 | 6.869±1.31 | 0.062 | 6.970±1.12 | 0.010 | 5.475±1.52 | 0.118 | 6.535±1.58 | 0.104 |
| Basic medicine | 5 | 5.400±2.19 | 5.400±1.94 | 5.000±2.00 | 6.800±2.16 | 5.000±2.00 | |||||
| Medical fieldsa) | |||||||||||
| Practitioner | 83 | 6.060±1.29 | 0.325 | 6.904±1.41 | 0.077 | 6.928±1.25 | 0.555 | 5.434±1.53 | 0.284 | 6.578±1.58 | 0.167 |
| Nonpractitioner | 18 | 6.333±1.41 | 6.389±1.19 | 6.833±1.09 | 6.000±1.74 | 6.111±1.84 | |||||
| Clinical departmentsb) | |||||||||||
| Medical | 64 | 6.094±1.26 | 0.827 | 6.719±1.33 | 0.537 | 6.922±1.31 | 0.859 | 5.594±1.63 | 0.666 | 6.781±1.59 | 0.031 |
| Surgical | 17 | 6.059±1.47 | 7.118±0.99 | 7.059±1.31 | 5.235±1.30 | 6.235±1.20 | |||||
| Othersc) | 20 | 6.200±1.36 | 6.850±1.81 | 6.750±1.33 | 5.600±1.69 | 5.800±1.88 | |||||
SD: Standard deviation.
a)
p-value was calculated by Mann-Whitney test. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05,
b)
p-value was calculated by analysis of variance. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05,
c)
Other specialties included support specialists (e.g., emergency medicine, radiology, laboratory medicine, and so forth).