Personality traits and types predict medical school stress: A six-year longitudinal and nationwide study

Medical Education

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 781-787

  Tyssen, Reidar ^a   Dolatowski, Filip C ^a   Røvik, Jan Ole ^a   Thorkildsen, Ruth F ^a   Ekeberg, Øivind ^a   Hem, Erlend ^a   Gude, Tore ^a   Grønvold, Nina T ^a   Vaglum, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

*education, medical, undergraduate; *personality; Female; Humans; Male; Multicentre study publication type ; Norway; Stress, psychological *psychology; Students, medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRAVERSION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; JOB STRESS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; PERSONALITY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NORWAY; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 34547228132     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02802.x     Document Type: Article

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