TY - JOUR
T1 - A preliminary measurement of the surgical personality
AU - McGreevy, James
AU - Wiebe, Deborah
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Background: We used the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Psychological Resources, Inc.) to test for a distinct surgical personality. Methods: The NEO-PI-R is a compilation of 240 statements. Subjects agree or disagree with the statements, generating a score in five personality traits according to the five factor theory: neuroticism (N), extraversion (E), openness (O), agreeableness (A), and conscientiousness (C). Each score is compared with that for the general population. Results: Twenty-four male and 15 female surgical residents voluntarily took the inventory. Compared to the general population, males scored lower in N (p <0.05), higher in E (P <0.001), O (P <0.05) and C (p <0.001), and average in A (no significant difference). Females scored average in N and A (no significant difference), and higher in E (p <0.001), O (P <0.05), and C (P <0.001). Conclusions: The similarity of trait variance from the general population in both male and female surgical residents supports the concept of a surgical personality.
AB - Background: We used the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (Psychological Resources, Inc.) to test for a distinct surgical personality. Methods: The NEO-PI-R is a compilation of 240 statements. Subjects agree or disagree with the statements, generating a score in five personality traits according to the five factor theory: neuroticism (N), extraversion (E), openness (O), agreeableness (A), and conscientiousness (C). Each score is compared with that for the general population. Results: Twenty-four male and 15 female surgical residents voluntarily took the inventory. Compared to the general population, males scored lower in N (p <0.05), higher in E (P <0.001), O (P <0.05) and C (p <0.001), and average in A (no significant difference). Females scored average in N and A (no significant difference), and higher in E (p <0.001), O (P <0.05), and C (P <0.001). Conclusions: The similarity of trait variance from the general population in both male and female surgical residents supports the concept of a surgical personality.
KW - NEO PI-R
KW - Personality traits
KW - Surgery residents
KW - Surgical personality
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U2 - 10.1016/S0002-9610(02)00919-4
DO - 10.1016/S0002-9610(02)00919-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 12169354
AN - SCOPUS:0036349118
SN - 0002-9610
VL - 184
SP - 121
EP - 125
JO - American journal of surgery
JF - American journal of surgery
IS - 2
ER -