The big five: Studying the surgical personality.

Humans Netherlands Personality Research Students, Medical / psychology Surgeons / psychology

Journal

Surgery
ISSN: 1532-7361
Titre abrégé: Surgery
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0417347

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
11 2022
Historique:
received: 22 03 2022
revised: 22 07 2022
accepted: 05 08 2022
pubmed: 6 9 2022
medline: 12 10 2022
entrez: 5 9 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The challenging nature of performing surgery on a personal and professional level demands specific characteristics. Personality traits play an important role in the nature and behavior of humans, which are studied using the five-factor model. Therefore, we investigated the personality of 3 surgical generations. Three distinct surgical populations were approached. The Dutch Big Five Inventory-2 was sent out online to 126 surgical residents (response: n = 69) and 104 surgeons (response: n = 60) in a teaching region in the Netherlands. Moreover, medical students interested in surgery were approached via the students' surgical society (response: n = 54). To obtain a normative Dutch population sample, the Longitudinal Internet studies for the Social Sciences panel was used, creating groups of the following age categories: 18 to 25 (n = 84), 26 to 35 (n = 101), 36 to 67 (n = 432). One-way analysis of variance with Bonferroni correction was used to assess differences in personality scores. Individuals interested in surgery (ie, surgically-oriented medical students, surgical residents, and surgeons) generally scored significantly higher on extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, open-mindedness, and lower on negative emotionality compared with the normative population sample. Across the surgical generations, surgical residents scored significantly lower on open-mindedness (3.60) compared with surgeons (3.92) and surgically-oriented medical students (3.82). Surgically-oriented medical students scored significantly higher in negative emotionality (2.44) compared with surgical residents (2.12) and surgeons (2.07). Being a surgeon demands particular levels of determination and emotional stability. The surgical population shows a distinct personality pattern compared with the normative population, and more modest differences exist between persons in different stages of their surgical career.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND
The challenging nature of performing surgery on a personal and professional level demands specific characteristics. Personality traits play an important role in the nature and behavior of humans, which are studied using the five-factor model. Therefore, we investigated the personality of 3 surgical generations.
METHODS
Three distinct surgical populations were approached. The Dutch Big Five Inventory-2 was sent out online to 126 surgical residents (response: n = 69) and 104 surgeons (response: n = 60) in a teaching region in the Netherlands. Moreover, medical students interested in surgery were approached via the students' surgical society (response: n = 54). To obtain a normative Dutch population sample, the Longitudinal Internet studies for the Social Sciences panel was used, creating groups of the following age categories: 18 to 25 (n = 84), 26 to 35 (n = 101), 36 to 67 (n = 432). One-way analysis of variance with Bonferroni correction was used to assess differences in personality scores.
RESULTS
Individuals interested in surgery (ie, surgically-oriented medical students, surgical residents, and surgeons) generally scored significantly higher on extraversion, conscientiousness, agreeableness, open-mindedness, and lower on negative emotionality compared with the normative population sample. Across the surgical generations, surgical residents scored significantly lower on open-mindedness (3.60) compared with surgeons (3.92) and surgically-oriented medical students (3.82). Surgically-oriented medical students scored significantly higher in negative emotionality (2.44) compared with surgical residents (2.12) and surgeons (2.07).
CONCLUSION
Being a surgeon demands particular levels of determination and emotional stability. The surgical population shows a distinct personality pattern compared with the normative population, and more modest differences exist between persons in different stages of their surgical career.

Identifiants

DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2022.08.003 PMID: 36064500
pubmed: 36064500
pii: S0039-6060(22)00591-8
doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2022.08.003
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

1358-1363

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Vincent Q Sier (VQ)

Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands.

Roderick F Schmitz (RF)

Department of Surgery, Groene Hart Hospital, Gouda, Netherlands.

Hein Putter (H)

Department of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/hein_putter.

Abbey Schepers (A)

Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands.

Joost R van der Vorst (JR)

Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. Electronic address: j.r.van_der_vorst@lumc.nl.

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