Table 1.
Descriptions of the three styles of success in a medical career dimensions: cluster analysis (Bineary Euclidean distance measure and Ward’s linkage method)
| 1. Committed satisfied with career n=14 |
2. Clever satisfied with life n=20 |
3. Bright unsatisfied n=16 |
Committed vs Clever | Committed vs Bright | Clever vs Bright | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M ± SD | M ± SD | M ± SD | F (2;47) | P | Tukey’s | post- | hoc test | |
| Postgraduate medical competence | −0.62 ± 0.61 | −0.50 ± 0.53 | 1.17 ± 0.61 | 48,256*** | <0.001 | 0,53 | <0.001*** | 0,00** |
| Satisfaction with medicine as a career | 0.95 ± 0.68 | −0.47 ± 0.47 | −0.24 ± 0.85 | 20,180*** | <0.001 | <0.001*** | <0.001*** | 0,31 |
| Work stress and burnout | 0.33 ± 0.48 | −0.27 ± 0.43 | 0.07 ± 0.45 | 7,365*** | <0.001 | <0.001*** | 0,13 | 0,03* |
| Quality of Life General well-being | −0.29 ± 0.81 | 0.49 ± 0.55 | −0.35 ± 0.60 | 9,499*** | <0.001 | <0.001*** | 0,80 | <0.001*** |
| Quality of Life Life satisfaction | −0.60 ± 0.78 | 0.76 ± 0.45 | −0.89± 0.86 | 29,090*** | <0.001 | <0.001*** | 0,26 | <0.001*** |
| Quality of Life Income | 3.57 ± 0.51 | 3.80 ± 0.41 | 2.63 ± 0.89 | 16,803*** | <0.001 | 0,31 | <0.001*** | <0.001*** |
Source: Tartas M, Walkiewicz M, Budziński W, Majkowicz M, Wójcikiewicz K. The sense of coherence and styles of success in the medical career: a longitudinal study. BMC Med Educ. 2014;14:254. doi:10.1186/s12909-014-0254-5
*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001