Table 5 Relation between Specialty selected by the studied participants and their personality traits (n = 379)
Personality traits | Specialty | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surgery | Internal medicine | Anaesthesia and Emergency Medicine | Diagnostics | Psychiatry | ||
Extraversion | 25.6 ± 5 | 25.7 ± 4 | 24.4 ± 4 | 24.6 ± 5 | 21.5 ± 7 | 0.018* |
Agreeableness | 31.4 ± 5 | 31.8 ± 6 | 30.4 ± 5 | 30.4 ± 6 | 33 ± 5 | 0.431 |
Conscientiousness | 31.4 ± 6 | 31.4 ± 6 | 30.3 ± 6 | 30.3 ± 6 | 30.4 ± 6 | 0.644 |
Neuroticism | 24.1 ± 5 | 23.7 ± 5 | 22.8 ± 4 | 25.1 ± 5 | 26.6 ± 5 | 0.112 |
Openness | 34.3 ± 6 | 34 ± 6 | 30.9 ± 8 | 32.8 ± 7 | 36.6 ± 6 | 0.007* |