| Literature DB >> 25813133 |
Jung Joon Ihm1, Bo Young Park2, Gene Lee3, Bo Hyoung Jin1.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The study was designed to identify how different types of transfer student personality would be constituted in Seoul National University School of Dentistry (SNU SD) and delve into what personal types were often observed more competent in academic performance.Entities:
Keywords: Academic performance; Dental school; Personality types; Transfer students
Year: 2012 PMID: 25813133 PMCID: PMC8813345 DOI: 10.3946/kjme.2012.24.3.241
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Korean J Med Educ ISSN: 2005-727X
The Comparison of Transfer Students’ GPA by Personality Type
| Transfer students | No. (%) | GPA | ||||
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| Mean [rank] | SD | Min | Max | |||
| All | 15 (100) | 3.30 | 0.40 | 2.43 | 3.80 | |
| Extra-Introver | E | 5 (33) | 3.12 [2] | 0.40 | 2.43 | 3.47 |
| I | 10 (67) | 3.42 [1] | 0.38 | 2.85 | 3.80 | |
| Sensing-Intuit | S | 12 (80) | 3.44 [1] | 0.30 | 2.85 | 3.80 |
| N | 3 (20) | 2.86 [2] | 0.42 | 2.43 | 3.27 | |
| Think-Feeling | T | 13 (86) | 3.35 [1] | 0.42 | 2.43 | 3.80 |
| F | 2 (14) | 3.07 [2] | 0.28 | 2.87 | 3.27 | |
| Judge-Perceive | J | 12 (80) | 3.44 [1] | 0.30 | 2.85 | 3.80 |
| P | 3 (20) | 2.86 [2] | 0.42 | 2.43 | 3.27 | |
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| Pearson X2(7)=20.5333 Pr=0.005 | ||||||
Figures in parentheses indicate percentage of total number of subjects within each group.
GPA: Grade point average.
p<0.01.
The Distribution of Personality Type by GPA
| Transfer students | Extra-Introver | Sensing-Intuit | Think-Feeling | Judge-Perceive | |||||
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| E | I | S | N | T | F | J | P | ||
| Grade | A | 2 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| (33) | (55) | (75) | (0) | (63.64) | (0) | (70) | (40) | ||
| B | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | |
| (67) | (45) | (25) | (100) | (36.36) | (100) | (30) | (60) | ||
| Total | 6 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 5 | |
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| p-value by Fisher’s exact test | 0.591 | 0.042 | 0.192 | 0.062 | |||||
Figures in parentheses indicate percentage of total number of subjects within each group.
Grade A means one’s GPA is higher than 3.40, that is, 90 points or better out of 100 while Grade B indicates one’s GPA is between 2.40 and 3.30, which ranges from 80 to 89 points.
GPA: Grade point average.
The Comparison of MBTI between Transfer and Native Students by GPA
| MBTI | Transfer students | Native students | ||||
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| Grade | Total (%) | Grade | Total (%) | |||
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| A | B | A | B | |||
| ISTJ | 6 | 1 | 7 (46.7) | 12 | 3 | 15 (46.9) |
| ESTJ | 3 | 2 | 5 (33.3) | 7 | 6 | 13 (40.6) |
| ENTP | 0 | 1 | 1 (6.7) | 0 | 2 | 2 (6.3) |
| INFP | 0 | 2 | 2 (13.3) | |||
| ESTP | 0 | 2 | 2 (6.3) | |||
| Total (%) | 9 | 6 | 15 (100.0) | 19 | 13 | 32 (100.0) |
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| Likelihood-ratio X2(3)=7.7186 Pr=0.052 | Likelihood-ratio X2(3)=10.2728 Pr=0.016 | |||||
Figures in parentheses indicate percentage of total number of subjects within each group.
Grade A means one’s GPA is higher than 3.40, that is, 90 points or better out of 100 while Grade B indicates one’s GPA is between 2.40 and 3.30, which ranges from 80 to 89 points.
MBTI: Myers-briggs type indicator, GPA: Grade point average.
p<0.05.