PMID- 29623465
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191015
LR  - 20240403
IS  - 1435-1102 (Electronic)
IS  - 1434-1816 (Print)
IS  - 1434-1816 (Linking)
VI  - 21
IP  - 6
DP  - 2018 Dec
TI  - Does medical students' personality have an impact on their intention to show 
      empathic behavior?
PG  - 611-618
LID - 10.1007/s00737-018-0837-y [doi]
AB  - Several studies have demonstrated a correlation between specific personal traits 
      and empathy. However, it is not clear if persons with certain personality traits 
      lack the intent to show empathic behavior or if other factors independent of 
      their intent are affecting their empathic behavior. To answer this question, we 
      asked 132 medical students to fill out questionnaires evaluating the General 
      Intention to Show Empathic Behavior (GISEB) and the five personality traits 
      measured by NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI). Additionally, we evaluated the 
      influence of other factors, such as age, gender, curricular progress (second 
      versus fourth year), and preferred specialization after graduation. We performed 
      a Pearson's correlation and a regression analysis. Results indicate that the five 
      personality traits and gender have little influence on the General Intention 
      (GISEB), only extraversion (r = .221, 95% CI [.013-.394], p = .027), and 
      agreeableness (r = .229, 95% CI [.021-.428], p = .022) correlated with the 
      intention. The only predictor for General Intention (GISEB) was curricular 
      progress (beta = - .27, p < .05), showing a decrease of General Intention to Show 
      Empathic Behavior from second to fourth year of university (U = 1203.5, 
      p = .002). A further finding indicates that gender and personality influence the 
      students' wish of specialization after graduation: Agreeableness (F(12, 
      53) = 2.376, p = .016) impacted the preferred specialization. Our study 
      demonstrated that medical students' personality might not notably impact the 
      intention to show empathic behavior. Further research is needed to investigate 
      moderating effects.
FAU - Seitz, Tamara
AU  - Seitz T
AD  - Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, SMZ Sud Wien, Vienna, 
      Austria.
FAU - Langle, Angelika S
AU  - Langle AS
AD  - Department of Psychoanalysis und Psychotherapy, and Teaching Center/Postgraduate 
      Unit, Medical University of Vienna, Wahringerstrasse 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria.
FAU - Seidman, Charles
AU  - Seidman C
AD  - Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
FAU - Loffler-Stastka, Henriette
AU  - Loffler-Stastka H
AD  - Department of Psychoanalysis und Psychotherapy, and Teaching Center/Postgraduate 
      Unit, Medical University of Vienna, Wahringerstrasse 18-20, 1090, Vienna, Austria. 
      henriette.loeffler-stastka@meduniwien.ac.at.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180406
PL  - Austria
TA  - Arch Womens Ment Health
JT  - Archives of women's mental health
JID - 9815663
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Behavioral Symptoms/diagnosis/psychology
MH  - *Career Choice
MH  - *Empathy
MH  - Female
MH  - Human Characteristics
MH  - Humans
MH  - Intention
MH  - Male
MH  - *Personality
MH  - Personality Assessment
MH  - *Physician-Patient Relations
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Students, Medical/*psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
PMC - PMC6245122
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Doctor-patient communication
OT  - Empathy
OT  - Medical students
OT  - NEO-FFI
OT  - Personality
COIS- CONFLICT OF INTEREST: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. 
      DECLARATION OF HELSINKI: This study was carried out in accordance with the 
      recommendations of Ethic Committee of the Medical University of Vienna, with 
      written informed consent from all subjects. All subjects gave written informed 
      consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
EDAT- 2018/04/07 06:00
MHDA- 2019/10/16 06:00
PMCR- 2018/04/06
CRDT- 2018/04/07 06:00
PHST- 2017/11/14 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/03/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/04/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/10/16 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/04/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/04/06 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1007/s00737-018-0837-y [pii]
AID - 837 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s00737-018-0837-y [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Womens Ment Health. 2018 Dec;21(6):611-618. doi: 10.1007/s00737-018-0837-y. 
      Epub 2018 Apr 6.