Association of Personality Traits with Life and Work of Medical Students: An Integrative Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personality traits are the basic components of an individual's personality. Although there are many published articles about the impact of personality traits on medical students, there is a lack of integrative reviews of existing articles. To close this gap, this review aims to summarize the impact of personality traits on medical students from two perspectives: life and work.

Methods

The search was performed using the following databases: PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and EMBASE. All publications that assessed the impact of personality traits on life and work until February 2022 were selected.

Results

Ninety-seven studies were included. The results suggest that personality traits could affect life performance, health outcomes, life satisfaction,

SUBMITTER: Liu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9566667 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature