Table 1. Prediction of PRM and NRM scores according to multivariate linear regression analysis.
| Variables | PRM | NRM | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β* | p value | β* | p value | |||||||
| Specialty | ||||||||||
| Dentistry | Ref. | -- | Ref. | -- | ||||||
| Medicine | -0.64 | 0.328 | -2.13 | 0.048 | ||||||
| Pharmacy | -3.61 | <0.0001 | -2.99 | 0.045 | ||||||
| Gender (Student) | ||||||||||
| Female | Ref. | -- | Ref. | -- | ||||||
| Male | -0.77 | 0.182 | -1.93 | 0.045 | ||||||
| Gender (Role Model) | ||||||||||
| Female | Ref. | -- | Ref. | -- | ||||||
| Male | -0.40 | 0.495 | 1.43 | .142 | ||||||
| Field | ||||||||||
| Basic Science | Ref. | -- | Ref. | -- | ||||||
| Clinical Science | 2.51 | 0.001 | 2.25 | 0.057 | ||||||
| Degree | ||||||||||
| Instructor | Ref. | -- | Ref. | -- | ||||||
| Assistant Professor | 0.81 | 2.627 | -0.31 | 0.856 | ||||||
| Associate Professor | 0.42 | 0.801 | 2.66 | 0.136 | ||||||
| Full Professor | 1.59 | 0.364 | 2.89 | 0.176 | ||||||
| Students Personality | 0.35 | <0.00001 | 0.20 | 0.039 | ||||||
*β is the regression coefficient that shows the difference between the value in each subgroup versus the value in the reference subgroup. Positive values for a subgroup of PRM or NRM (such as field) indicated higher values for PRMs and NRMs in clinical sciences rather than basic sciences. This implied that clinical role models received higher scores than basic science role models.