Table 2.

The professional identity among medical students with different career attitudes before and after the pandemic (N = 6,226).

Variables		Career attitude
		Unchanged	Enhanced	Weakened
Professional cognition	Z	−13.911	−8.026	−2.5
	P	0.000	0.000	0.012
Professional emotion	Z	−6.276	−6.633	−1.333
	P	0.000	0.000	0.182
Professional commitment	Z	−3.260	−7.994	−4.926
	P	0.000	0.000	0.000
Professional behavior	Z	−6.791	−7.852	−1.600
	P	0.000	0.000	0.110
Professional achievement	Z	−13.126	−0.685	−6.367
	P	0.000	0.494	0.000
Professional value	Z	−3.121	−6.598	−5.925
	P	0.002	0.000	0.000