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Forming mentoring relationships in graduate education: The role of personality

This study investigated mentoring relationships between doctoral students and faculty members. We examined initiation of mentoring as a mediator between key personality facets and mentoring received among 162 doctoral students (females = 77%, 77%…

Tags: 2022, Career Choice, doctoral students, mentoring initiation, Personality

Can Trait Anxiety, Grades, And Test-scores Measured Prior To Medical-school Matriculation Predict Clerkship Performance

Tags: 1991, Academic Medicine, academic-performance, Education & Educational Research, Health Care Sciences & Services, Jones B J, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Personality, Stress, Students

The Physician Values In Practice Scale: Construction And Initial Validation

Measures of values typically appraise the construct globally, across life domains or relative to a broad life domain such as work. We conducted two studies to construct and initially validate an occupation- and context-specific values measure. Study…

Individualism-collectivism Links To Occupational Plans And Work Values

Individualism-collectivism (IC) constitutes a cultural variable thought to influence a wide variety of variables including career planning and decision making. To examine this possibility, college students (216 women, 106 men, 64% racial-ethnic…

Personality, Vocational Interests, And Work Values Of Medical Students

Holland's theory applied to medical specialty choice

The present study tested the hypothesis that medical specialties classified as technique oriented or patient oriented would be distinguished by RIASEC code, with technique-oriented specialists resembling Investigative-Realistic types and…

Tags: 2004, Borges N J, Career Occupational Preference System Inventory, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Holland types, Jones B J, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Journal of Career Assessment, NEOMED College of Medicine, Personality, Physicians, primary care, Psychology, Savickas M L, Selection, specialty choice, Students

Personality and medical specialty choice: A literature review and integration

This review examines the literature on personality and medical specialty choice. First, it describes studies categorized by medical specialties that to date have used the same measures: Adjective Check List, California Psychological Inventory,…

Tags: 2002, 5-factor model, Borges N J, Department of Family & Community Medicine, indicator, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Journal of Career Assessment, myers-briggs type, NEOMED College of Medicine, Performance, Personality, perspective, Physicians, Psychology, Residents, Savickas M L, specialty choice, traits

Personality and medical specialty choice: Technique orientation versus people orientation

The present study investigated a conceptual framework for relating medical specialty choice to personality. The model was tested by examining personality differences among general surgeons, anesthesiologists, and family practice physicians. The 16…

Tags: 2001, Borges N J, Career, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Journal of vocational behavior, medical specialty, Osmon W R, Performance, Personality, physician, Psychology, Residents, school, Students

Stability of values during medical school

Background: Medical students' values represent an understudied area of research in medical education research. No known studies have investigated how medical students' values change over time from matriculation to graduation. Aim: Values are thought…

Tags: 2010, Borges N J, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Education & Educational Research, Hartung P J, Health Care Sciences & Services, Interests, Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication, Medical teacher, NEOMED College of Medicine, Personality, specialty choice, Students

Personality patterns of physicians in person-oriented and technique-oriented specialties

This study investigated differences in personality patterns between person-oriented and technique-oriented physicians. It tested an integrative framework by converting the scores on the Personality Research Form (PRF) to the Big-Five factors and…

Retheorizing sexual harassment in medical education: Women students' perceptions at five US medical schools

Background: The literature consistently reports that sexual harassment occurs with regularity in medical education, mostly in clinical settings, and most of it goes unreported. Reasons for nonreporting include the fear of retaliation, a reluctance to…

Career decidedness as a predictor of subjective well-being

Forming, pursing, and achieving life tasks constitute important determinants of subjective well-being (SWB). A principal life task for emerging adults involves deciding about career goals. Prior research indicates that depression predicts SWB and may…

Personality and values as predictors of medical specialty choice

Research rarely considers the combined influence of personality traits and values in predicting behavioral outcomes. We aimed to advance a germinal line of inquiry that addresses this gap by separately and simultaneously examining personality traits…

Family transmission of work affectivity and experiences to children

Theory and research suggest that children develop orientations toward work appreciably influenced by their family members' own expressed work experiences and emotions. Cross-sectional data from 100 children (53 girls, 47 boys; mean age = 11.1 years)…

A Test of the Career Construction Theory Model of Adaptation in Adult Workers With Chiari Malformation

The present study examined the career construction theory (CCT) model of adaptation using a sample of working adults diagnosed with Chiari malformation. Specifically, we tested a mediation model in which adaptivity (i.e., proactivity, openness, and…

Behavioral factors in the management of back pain.

Most persons with acute back problems recover promptly. Comprehensive evaluation of those who have not significantly improved within two weeks will often reveal significant behavioral factors that may be impeding recovery. These factors may include…

Tags: *Behavior, 1996, American family physician, Analgesics/therapeutic use, Back Pain/diagnosis/*psychology/*therapy, Depression/psychology, Gillette R D, Humans, Neurotic Disorders/psychology/therapy, Personality, Physician-Patient Relations, Psychotropic Drugs/therapeutic use

Personality Profiles of Incoming Male and Female Medical Students: Results of a Multi-Site 9-Year Study.

PURPOSE: This study conveys findings of a 9-year multi-site study of personality traits among incoming medical students. The purpose of the study was twofold. First, it assessed gender differences by exploring personality traits of incoming male and…

Tags: 2007, Borges Nicole J, Early Larry A, Gender, Medical education online, medical students, medical students personality., Meit Scott S, Personality

A neurochemical hypothesis for the origin of hominids.

It has always been difficult to account for the evolution of certain human characters such as language, empathy, and altruism via individual reproductive success. However, the striatum, a subcortical region originally thought to be exclusively motor,…

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