Table 5.

Scores of four items related to role recognition of 6th-year medical students (number of respondents was 118) and 2nd-year residents (number of respondents was 47), and correlation with developing scale score and factor scores

Items related to role recognition				Correlation
Items		Respondents	Mean (SD)	DS		Factor score
						Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5
a	I have thought and acted as the lead physician of patients under my care.	6th-year medical students	4.6 (1.32)	r	0.21 *	0.031	0.31 **	0.17	0.12	0.01
				p	0.023	0.721	0.001	0.063	0.185	0.949
		2nd-year residents	5.6 (1.14)	r	0.20	−0.13	0.13	0.33 *	0.48 **	−0.21
				p	0.187	0.380	0.370	0.024	0.001	0.148
b	The patients and families under my care have acknowledged and complied with me as their physician.	6th-year medical students	4.1 (1.49)	r	0.19 *	−0.03	0.32 **	0.16	0.19 *	0.00
				p	0.043	0.750	0.001	0.090	0.041	0.965
		2nd-year residents	4.9 (1.56)	r	0.25	−0.16	0.15	0.41 **	0.56 **	0.19
				p	0.092	0.270	0.317	0.005	0.000	0.190
c	Senior physicians and supervisors have respected me as the lead physician of patients under my care.	6th-year medical students	4.4 (1.43)	r	0.17	−0.06	0.29 **	0.12	0.19 *	0.07
				p	0.061	0.495	0.001	0.210	0.045	0.474
		2nd-year residents	5.1 (1.24)	r	0.15	−0.19	0.23	0.30 *	0.38 **	−0.03
				p	0.329	0.193	0.113	0.038	0.009	0.853
d	Nurses and other medical staff have complied with me as the lead physician of patients under my care.	6th-year medical students	3.6 (1.52)	r	0.13	−0.16	0.35 **	0.10	0.26 **	−0.01
				p	0.165	0.094	0.000	0.301	0.004	0.883
		2nd-year residents	4.9 (1.42)	r	0.19	−0.00	0.04	0.17	0.38 **	0.09
				p	0.198	0.992	0.790	0.242	0.008	0.535

r: Pearson Correlation coefficient; p: Significant value (2-tailed)

**(Bold): Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level; *(Bold): Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level