Empathy of medical students and personality: Evidence from the Five-Factor Model

Medical Teacher

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 807-812

  Magalhães, Eunice ^a   Costa, Patrício ^a   Costa, Manuel João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PORTUGAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84867960500     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.702248     Document Type: Article

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