College of Medicine, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Eval Health Prof. 2013 Jun;36(2):174-90. doi: 10.1177/0163278712454138. Epub 2012 Jul 26.
How to select candidates with appropriate personal qualities for medical school is an important issue. This study examined the psychometric properties and group differences of the Personal Qualities Assessment (PQA) to test the feasibility of using it as a tool to assess the medical school applicants in a non-Western culture. Seven hundred forty-six medical students in Taiwan completed two psychometric measures: Mojac to assess moral orientation and NACE to assess four aspects of interpersonal relationships. Thirty-one students completed the tests twice to establish test-retest reliability. A subsample of 127 students also completed a measure of the "Big Five" personality traits to examine the construct validity of these scales. Both Mojac and NACE had acceptable internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Conceptually, coherent and significant relationships were observed between test components and between the NACE and Big Five. NACE but not Mojac varied significantly between different sociodemographic groups. Both tests demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties. However, the predictive validity of PQA requires future studies.
如何为医学院选拔具有适当个人素质的候选人是一个重要问题。本研究检验了个人素质评估（PQA）的心理测量特性和群体差异，以测试其在非西方文化中作为评估医学院申请者工具的可行性。台湾的 746 名医学生完成了两项心理测量措施：Mojac 评估道德取向和 NACE 评估人际关系的四个方面。31 名学生两次完成测试以建立测试-重测信度。127 名学生的一个子样本还完成了“五大”人格特质的测量，以检验这些量表的结构效度。Mojac 和 NACE 都具有可接受的内部一致性和测试-重测信度。从概念上讲，测试成分之间以及 NACE 和“五大”之间存在一致且显著的关系。NACE 而不是 Mojac 在不同的社会人口统计学群体之间存在显著差异。这两个测试都表现出可接受的心理测量特性。然而，PQA 的预测效度需要进一步研究。
