TABLE 3.
The differences of the diverse reasons for choosing the medical career in medical students with high or with low CPSS score.
| Stratified | Reasons for medical work | High CPSS score(n = 1,219) | Low CPSS score(n = 1,279) | X2 | P |
| Good | Meaningful work | 896(73.50%) | 1,061(82.96%) | 32.868 | <0.001 |
| Devotion of love | 590(48.40%) | 736(57.54%) | 20.957 | <0.001 | |
| Stable workplace | 671(55.05%) | 750(58.64%) | 3.288 | 0.07 | |
| Easy employment | 444(36.42%) | 499(39.01%) | 1.784 | 0.182 | |
| Poor | Work at risk | 882(72.35%) | 918(71.77%) | 0.104 | 0.747 |
| Disrespect by patients | 556(45.61%) | 496(38.78%) | 11.946 | 0.001 | |
| Low salary | 465(38.15%) | 320(25.02%) | 49.904 | <0.001 | |
| Strict college entrance examination | 410(33.63%) | 385(30.10%) | 3.59 | 0.058 | |
| Hard work and serving people | 407(33.39%) | 328(25.65%) | 18.02 | <0.001 | |
| High academic requirements | 332(27.24%) | 289(22.60%) | 7.193 | 0.007 | |
| Non-conformity for career planning | 255(20.92%) | 190(14.86%) | 15.673 | <0.001 | |
| Career without future | 145(11.89%) | 94(7.35%) | 14.904 | <0.001 |
Chi-square test for categorical variables; Bold font means there is a significant difference between the two groups.