A longitudinal study of relationships between previous academic achievement, emotional intelligence and personality traits with psychological health of medical students during stressful periods

Yusoff, Muhamad Saiful Bahri; Esa, Ab Rahman; Pa, Mohamad Najib Mat; Mey, See Ching; Aziz, Rosniza Abdul; Rahim, Asma

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“…So far, most of medical schools selected their prospective medical students by looking at the cognitive ability, particularly previous academic achievement. Unfortunately, the academic achievement alone does not predict that a person will become a good doctor in the future (7)(8)(9). There is an approach that emphasises on demonstrating operationalised capabilities across a number of domains as supported by knowledge, skills and attitudes.…”

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“…A five-factor model of personality traits provides a theoretical basis to understand the predictive abilities and effects of personality traits in medical admission practice and training (9,12). Even so, the ability of inventories measuring personality traits to predict important outcomes such as job performance have been debated by traditional psychologists, as a result of inconclusive findings in early analysis and worries that most personality inventories are over-rated (13).…”

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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of USM Personality Inventory (USMaP-i) among Medical Degree Program Applicants in Universiti Sains Malaysia

Farliza¹,

Nor²,

Yusoff³

et al. 2016

EIMJ

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Introduction:USMaP-i is an English, 66-item self-administered inventory, consisting of personality (60 items, 5 factors) and faking (one factor) components, which was mainly developed to measure personality traits among Malaysian students based on local cultures and values. The personality component was based on the Big Five dimensions as suggested by numerous personality researchers. Previous exploratory studies showed promising validity, reliability and stability of USMaP-i. Objective: To provide further validity evidence of USMaP-i for use among medical degree program applicants by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Methods: Data were collected as a part of screening of medical degree program applicants for year 2010-2013 intakes in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), of which 657 cases were suitable for analyses following a data screening measures. CFA was performed by bootstrap maximum likelihood estimation due to non-normality of items at multivariate level. Results: Although the revised five-factor model of personality showed good model fit (X2(df) = 144.36(55), P-value < 0.001; CFI = .944, TLI = .921; RMSEA = .050; SRMR = .032, Bollen-Stine bootstrap P-value = 0.004), the reliability of the factors is very poor (composite reliabilities (CR) = .483 to .650). In contrast, the unidimensional faking component exhibited good model fit (X2(df) = 14.15(5), P-value = 0.015; CFI = .984, TLI = .968; RMSEA = .053; SRMR = .011, Bollen-Stine bootstrap P-value = 0.068) and factor reliability (CR = 0.731). Conclusion: The personality component should be revised and revalidated due to poor reliability, despite showing good model fit. In contrast, the faking component showed good model fit and reliability. Further validation studies are recommended before its use among medical degree program applicants.

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A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of USM Personality Inventory (USMaP-i) among Medical Degree Program Applicants in Universiti Sains Malaysia

Farliza¹,

Nor²,

Yusoff³

et al. 2016

EIMJ

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“…(19) Our results of lower neuroticism, in effect, could indicate that medical students are emotionally mature and resilient to psychological distress during medical school.…”

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How the personalities of medical students at the National University of Singapore differ from those of the local non-medical undergraduate population: a cross-sectional study

Lean

Hong

2018

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“…Others factors and others methods to measure engagement and satisfaction were necessary to investigate. These factors can be personality traits [32,33] and emotional intelligence [32,34-37]. …”

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Association of academic performance of premedical students to satisfaction and engagement in a short training program: a cross sectional study presenting gender differences

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BackgroundIt is important that students have a high academic engagement and satisfaction in order to have good academic achievement. No study measures association of these elements in a short training program. This study aimed to measure the correlation between academic achievement, satisfaction and engagement dimensions in a short training program among premedical students.MethodsWe carried out a cross sectional study, in August 2013, at Cercle d’Etudiants, Ingénieurs, Médecins et Professeurs de Lycée pour le Triomphe de l’Excellence (CEMPLEX) training center, a center which prepares students for the national common entrance examination into medical schools in Cameroon. We included all students attending this training center during last examination period. They were asked to fill out a questionnaire on paper. Academic engagement was measured using three dimensions: vigor, dedication and absorption. Satisfaction to lessons, for each learning subject was collected. Academic achievement was calculated using mean of the score of all learning subjects affected with their coefficient. Pearson coefficient (r) and multiple regression models were used to measure association. A p value < 0.05 was statistically significant.ResultsIn total, 180 students were analyzed. In univariate linear analysis, we found correlation with academic achievement for vigor (r = 0.338, p = 0.006) and dedication (r = 0.287, p = 0.021) only in male students. In multiple regression linear analysis, academic engagement and satisfaction were correlated to academic achievement only in male students (R2 = 0.159, p = 0.035). No correlation was found in female students and in all students. The independent variables (vigor, dedication, absorption and satisfaction) explained 6.8-24.3% of the variance of academic achievement.ConclusionIt is only in male students that academic engagement and satisfaction to lessons are correlated to academic achievement in this short training program for premedical students and this correlation is weak.

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A longitudinal study of relationships between previous academic achievement, emotional intelligence and personality traits with psychological health of medical students during stressful periods

Cited by 51 publications

References 38 publications

A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of USM Personality Inventory (USMaP-i) among Medical Degree Program Applicants in Universiti Sains Malaysia

A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of USM Personality Inventory (USMaP-i) among Medical Degree Program Applicants in Universiti Sains Malaysia

How the personalities of medical students at the National University of Singapore differ from those of the local non-medical undergraduate population: a cross-sectional study

Association of academic performance of premedical students to satisfaction and engagement in a short training program: a cross sectional study presenting gender differences

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