| Literature DB >> 25804965 |
Yera Hur1, A-Ra Cho2, Sun Kim2.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Medical students' personality types and interpersonal needs must be considered. The purpose of this study was to examine the characteristics of personality types and interpersonal needs.Entities:
Keywords: Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior; Interpersonal needs; Interpersonal relationship; Medical students; Personality inventory; Personality types
Year: 2013 PMID: 25804965 PMCID: PMC8813406 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2013.25.4.309
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Med Educ ISSN: 2005-727X
Distributions and Differences of Personality Types within Each Gender
| Personality types | Males (n=99) | Females (n=72) | Total (n=171) | |||
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| No. (%) | p-value | No. (%) | p-value | No. (%) | ||
| Focus of your attention | E | 55 (55.56) | 0.269 | 36 (50.00) | 1 | 91 (53.22) |
| I | 44 (44.44) | 36 (50.00) | 80 (46.78) | |||
| The way you take information | S | 59 (59.60) | 0.056 | 49 (68.06) | 0.002 | 108 (63.16) |
| N | 40 (40.4) | 46 (63.89) | 63 (36.84) | |||
| The way you make decisions | T | 56 (56.57) | 0.191 | 46 (63.89) | 0.018 | 102 (59.65) |
| F | 43 (43.43) | 26 (36.11) | 69 (40.35) | |||
| How you deal with the other world | J | 50 (50.51) | 0.920 | 46 (63.89) | 0.018 | 96 (56.14) |
| P | 49 (49.49) | 26 (36.11) | 75 (43.86) | |||
EI: Extraversion-Introversion, SN: Sensing-Intuition, TF: Thinking-Feeling, JP: Judging-Perceiving.
p-values from one-sample proportion test (p=0.5).
Distributions of Characteristics Types
| Sensing types | Intuitive types | |||
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| Thinking (%) | Feeling (%) | Thinking (%) | Feeling (%) | |
| Judging/Introverts | ISTJ | ISFJ | INFJ | INTJ |
| 28 (16.37) | 9 (5.26) | 2 (1.17) | 4 (2.34) | |
| Perceiving/Introverts | ISTP | ISFP | INFP | INTP |
| 9 (5.26) | 10 (5.85) | 8 (4.68) | 10 (5.85) | |
| Judging/Extraverts | ESTJ | ESFJ | ENFJ | ENTJ |
| 24 (14.04) | 18 (10.53) | 5 (2.92) | 6 (3.51) | |
| Perceiving/Extraverts | ESTP | ESFP | ENFP | ENTP |
| 9 (5.26) | 1 (0.58) | 16 (9.36) | 12 (7.02) | |
Fig. 1.Level of Interpersonal Needs
Data are presented as mean±SD.
Differences of Interpersonal Needs between Gender
| Variable | Males (n=99) | Females (n=72) | t | p-value | |||
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||
| Basic social needs | Inclusion | 8.24 | 4.33 | 7.96 | 4.03 | 0.44 | 0.663 |
| Control | 9.19 | 2.91 | 8.24 | 2.59 | 2.22 | 0.028 | |
| Affection | 8.28 | 4.20 | 7.79 | 4.41 | 0.74 | 0.461 | |
| Behavior | expressed | 12.63 | 5.03 | 11.39 | 5.30 | 1.55 | 0.123 |
| wanted | 13.09 | 5.56 | 12.60 | 5.67 | 0.57 | 0.570 | |
| Overall interpersonal needs | 25.72 | 8.95 | 23.99 | 9.33 | 1.23 | 0.222 | |
SD: Standard deviation.
p-values from t-test (males vs. females) (p<0.05).
Differences between Level of Interpersonal Needs and Personality Types (E-I)
| Variable | Personality types | t | p-value | ||||
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| E (n=91) | I (n=80) | ||||||
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||
| Basic social needs | Inclusion | 9.26 | 4.02 | 6.83 | 4.03 | 3.95 | <0.001 |
| Control | 9.21 | 2.65 | 8.31 | 2.93 | 2.10 | 0.037 | |
| Affection | 9.14 | 4.22 | 6.86 | 4.05 | 3.59 | <0.001 | |
| Behavior | expressed | 14.50 | 4.38 | 9.39 | 4.65 | 7.39 | <0.001 |
| wanted | 13.12 | 5.26 | 12.61 | 5.97 | 0.59 | 0.554 | |
| Overall interpersonal needs | 27.62 | 8.22 | 22.00 | 9.24 | 4.21 | <0.001 | |
E-I: Extraversion-Introversion, SD: Standard deviation.
p-values from t-test (p<0.05).
Fig. 2.Level of Interpersonal Needs on Characteristic Types
Data are presented as mean scores. (A) expressed – ICA. (B) wanted – ICA.
ICA: Inclusion, Control, and Affection, E: Extraversion, I: Introversion, S: Sensing N: intuition, T: Thinking, F: Feeling, J: Judging, P: Perceiving.