Mushtaq Ahmed Shahid, Naila Mushtaq, Mehak Ahm Ad, Asad Shaheer Khan.
Personality Traits of Medical Students: a study from Private Medical College.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;12(1):589-90.

Background: Medical students in any medical college are considered as most intelligent and educated people. But it is important to know the personality traits of the medical students. Aim : To determine the frequency of personality traits among final year medical students and to determine the difference of personality traits in two genders. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at Avicenna Medical College, Lahore over 2 months. A total of 144 final year medical students were included in this study and standard Big Five Inventory (BFI) was introduced to all of them. They were asked to fill the proforma having demographic details and 44 questions of BFI. It assesses the personality traits into 5 domains namely Extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness. Some of the questions are scored in a reverse order as per key provided by authors. In this study all data was analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results: A total of 93 students were included and mean age was found as 22.95+/-0.937 years. Most of the students 76 (81.7%) were female in this study while 17 students were male. The highest mean value was found for Openness and lowest value was seen for Extroversion. Also the difference in personality domains was stratifies to look for the difference in gender. It was found that mean value for extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism were higher among females but this difference was not statistically significant. Conclusion: We conclude that there are certain personalities which are more prevalent among medical students. So we must take this aspect also in account whenever counseling regarding career and other future planning is concerned.

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