Badger Gary R, Franklin Deborah R
Tex Dent J. 2017 May;134(5):286-297.
Personality Types of Pediatric Dentistry Residents and Residency Applicants PURPOSE: Dentists may possess unique personality traits that distinguish them from the general population. Within the profession, there may be personality traits that are more prevalent in one specialty than another. This project was designed to determine if personality profiling could be a predictor for success in a specialty field, i.e. pediatric dentistry. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was developed to make the theory of psychological types, described by Carl Jung, understandable and useful to people's everyday lives. Jung's theory is that much of what seems like random human behavior is due to basic differences in the . way people use their perception and judgment. The purpose of this study was to determine if interviewees to a pediatric dentistry residency program possessed similar personality traits to pediatric dentistry faculty/residents by comparing the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) results of the 2 groups. METHODS: Thirty-one pediatric dentistry faculty/residents were.compared with 46 pediatric dentistry residency interviewees. Each member of both groups anonymously completed the MBTI profile. RESULTS: This study indicates that there are no significant differences in MBTI personality types between pediatric dentistry faculty/residents versus interviewees to a pediatric dentistry residency (p=0.168), except that interviewees were more likely to exhibit the ESFJ type than were faculty/ residents (p=0.015). ESFJ represents E, extrovert, S, sensing, F, feeling and J, judging. All comparisons were conducted with the asymptotic chi-square test, except when expected cell counts were <5. For the latter comparisons, the Fisher's exact version of the chi-square test was used, p< .05 CONCLUSION: It is concluded that no common personality type, as determined by the MBTI, exists between pediatric dentistry faculty/residents and interviewees for residency, and that personality characteristics cannot be used as predictive factors in selection of pediatric dentistry residents.
儿科牙科住院医师及住院医师申请者的性格类型
牙医可能具备使其有别于普通人群的独特性格特征。在该职业内部，某些性格特征在一个专业领域可能比在另一个专业领域更为普遍。本项目旨在确定性格剖析是否可作为一个专业领域（即儿科牙科）成功的预测指标。迈尔斯-布里格斯类型指标（MBTI）的开发是为了使卡尔·荣格所描述的心理类型理论对人们的日常生活而言易懂且有用。荣格的理论是，许多看似随意的人类行为是由于人们运用感知和判断方式的基本差异所致。本研究的目的是通过比较两组的迈尔斯-布里格斯类型指标（MBTI）结果，确定儿科牙科住院医师项目的受访者是否具有与儿科牙科教职员工/住院医师相似的性格特征。
将31名儿科牙科教职员工/住院医师与46名儿科牙科住院医师申请者进行比较。两组的每一位成员都匿名完成了MBTI剖析。
本研究表明，儿科牙科教职员工/住院医师与儿科牙科住院医师申请者在MBTI性格类型上无显著差异（p = 0.168），只是申请者比教职员工/住院医师更有可能表现出ESFJ类型（p = 0.015）。ESFJ代表外向（E）、实感（S）、情感（F）和判断（J）。除预期单元格计数<5时外，所有比较均采用渐近卡方检验。对于后一种比较，使用卡方检验的费舍尔精确检验版本，p <.05
得出的结论是，儿科牙科教职员工/住院医师与住院医师申请者之间不存在由MBTI确定的共同性格类型，并且性格特征不能用作选拔儿科牙科住院医师的预测因素。
