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J E Mozer

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PubMed1992

Personality, self-esteem, stress, and satisfaction among Texas dentists.

Do the personality styles of dentists significantly influence their sense of well-being in their profession? A recent study using the Bi/Polar Inventory of Core Strengths differentiated 218 Texas dentists into eight personality profiles. Patterns VII and V (both risking and practical) as a group reported significantly higher self-esteem, higher ability to cope with stress, lower psychological distress, higher satisfaction with dentistry, and greater likelihood of choosing dentistry again as a career, than did Patterns III and IV (both thinking and theoretical). The results suggest that Patterns VII and V may be the most compatible with dentistry, and Patterns III and IV the least compatible. Also, the practical orientation (preferred by nearly 80% of the Texas dentists sample over the theoretical orientation) may be the single most influential personality trait in terms of compatibility with dentistry. Implications arise in career counseling, dental school admissions committees, and counseling dentists dissatisfied with.

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PubMed1992

Personality patterns of Texas dentists: a study using the bi/polar theory.

Are individuals with certain personality styles uniquely attracted to dentistry? A recent study with 218 Texas dentists using the Bi/Polar Inventory of Core Strengths showed that the dentists were more thinking (57.3%) than risking, profoundly more practical (78.0%) than theoretical, and more independent (67.9%) than dependent. Compared with the general population, dentists were significantly more thinking, practical and independent. Of the eight personality styles, Pattern II (thinking-practical-independent) (29.4%) was the only pattern significantly over-represented among the dentists compared with the general population. However, Pattern I (thinking-practical-dependent) (17.4%) was also over-represented at the trend level. Significantly under-represented among the dentists were Pattern V (risking-practical-dependent) (6.9%) and Pattern VI (risking-theoretical-dependent) (3.2%). Results suggest at least some personality influence on attraction to dentistry.

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PubMed1990

The relationship of Bi/Polar personality patterns with self-esteem, stress, and satisfaction in dental school.

The Bi/Polar Inventory of Core Strength was administered to two senior dental classes. This inventory identifies preferences on three fundamental underlying dimensions of personality and yields eight personality patterns, which were subsequently correlated with the students' self-assessment of various aspects of the dental school experience. Individuals with preferences for risking, practical thinking, and independence consistently demonstrated higher self-esteem, higher ability to cope with the stresses of dental school, lower psychological distress in dental school, and higher satisfaction with dentistry than individuals with polar opposite preferences--thinking, theoretical thinking, and dependence--although only some of these comparisons reached statistical significance. Pattern III (thinking-theoretical-dependent) reported the lowest self-esteem, lowest ability to cope with stress, highest psychological distress, and lowest satisfaction with dentistry. Pattern III may represent a psychological profile exhibiting early warning signs of a potential tension with the task demands of clinical dentistry. Conversely, Pattern VII (risking-practical-independent) may represent a profile prone to high self-esteem, high-stress resistance, low psychological distress, and reasonably high satisfaction with dentistry.

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PubMed1988

Bi/Polar personality patterns of senior dental students.

The Bi/Polar Inventory of Core Strengths was administered to two senior dental classes. Students preferred thinking (58.3 percent) over risking (41.7 percent), practical thinking (78.7 percent) over theoretical thinking (21.3 percent), and independent risking (59.1 percent) over dependent risking (40.9 percent). Compared to the general population, dental students were more thinking and practical, but nearly identical in independence-dependence. Pattern II (thinking-practical-independent) was the most common student pattern (25.2 percent) and Pattern VI (risking-theoretical-dependent) was the least common (3.9 percent). Results suggest a dominance of certain personality styles in dental students.

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