Sohrabi Zohreh, Bigdeli Shoaleh, Nadjafi Shabnam
Center for Educational Research in Medical Sciences (CERMS), Department of Medical Education, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Neuroscience Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2023 Jan 31;12:7. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1696_21. eCollection 2023.
The relationship between personality traits and learning styles is an attractive subject for researchers. "Learning Style" indicates on a method of education for effective studying. The Kolb's Learning Style is a known theory in the field of learning style. The Kolb's four learning styles include: Divergent, convergent, assimilating, and accommodating. Furthermore, personality, known as relatively fixed and durable characteristics that distinguish people from each other, and personality contains five broad identified traits of extraversion, agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism. In this study, we intended to evaluate the relationship between personality traits and learning styles in medical education students.
This research was an observational analytic cross-sectional study that was conducted on medical education students at Iran University of Medical Sciences, between 2018 and 2019, and 31 students were participated as volunteers. NEO Five-Factor Inventory and the Kolb's learning style inventory (version 3.1) were used to evaluate the students' personality traits and learning styles, respectively. The simple and multiple analysis of multinomial logistic regression were used for statistical analysis.
The results indicated that if one unit would be added to the score of the "Extraversion" personality trait, the estimated odds, by which the student's learning style would become "Accommodating" rather than "Assimilating," is 1.3 times more than the basic condition, in which "Extraversion" score would be remained unchanged ( = 0.035).
It seems that "Accommodating" learning style might be related to "Extraversion" personality trait in medical education students. However, researches with a larger population are suggested.
人格特质与学习风格之间的关系是研究人员感兴趣的课题。“学习风格”指的是一种有效的学习教育方法。科尔布学习风格是学习风格领域的一个著名理论。科尔布的四种学习风格包括：发散型、聚合型、同化型和顺应型。此外，人格是区分人与人之间相对固定和持久的特征，人格包含外向性、宜人性、开放性、尽责性和神经质这五个广泛确定的特质。在本研究中，我们旨在评估医学教育专业学生的人格特质与学习风格之间的关系。
本研究是一项观察性分析横断面研究，于2018年至2019年对伊朗医科大学的医学教育专业学生进行，31名学生作为志愿者参与。分别使用大五人格问卷和科尔布学习风格量表（3.1版）来评估学生的人格特质和学习风格。采用多项逻辑回归的单因素和多因素分析进行统计分析。
结果表明，如果“外向性”人格特质得分增加一个单位，学生的学习风格变为“顺应型”而非“同化型”的估计比值比是基本情况（“外向性”得分保持不变）的1.3倍（P = 0.035）。
在医学教育专业学生中，“顺应型”学习风格似乎可能与“外向性”人格特质有关。然而，建议进行更大样本量的研究。
