Medical specialty choice and well-being at work: Physician's personality as a moderator

Personality and values as predictors of medical specialty choice

Article history: Received 31 August 2010 Available online 16 September 2010 Research rarely considers the combined influence of personality traits and values in predicting behavioral outcomes.We aimed to advance a germinal line of inquiry that addresses this gap by separately and simultaneously examining personality traits and physician work values to predict medical specialty choice. First-yea...

Personality and Medical Specialty Choice: A Literature Review and Integration

Survey the level of well-being and Psychometric characteristics of hospital nurses’ well-being at work

Background and Aims: mental health problems is common among nurses, because they must face to stressors of their workplace which include work-rest cycle problems, overload responsibility, financial problems, lack of vacation time, pressures of work, patient communication frameworks  and painful experiences of patients. Based on previous researches psychological resiliency can help them to appro...

The influence of temperament and character profiles on specialty choice and well-being in medical residents

BACKGROUND Multiple factors influence the decision to enter a career in medicine and choose a specialty. Previous studies have looked at personality differences in medicine but often were unable to describe the heterogeneity that exists within each specialty. Our study used a person-centered approach to characterize the complex relations between the personality profiles of resident physicians a...

Specialty Choice Among Physicians