Personality profiles of male and female positive role models in medicine

Psychological Reports

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 547-559

  Magee, Mike ^a,b   Hojat, Mohammadreza ^c  

^a Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032039720     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.2.547     Document Type: Article

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