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Table 2 Relationship between perfectionism and TOA pre-clerkship and post-clerkship (post-clerkship relationship in brackets)

From: The erosion of ambiguity tolerance and sustainment of perfectionism in undergraduate medical training: results from multiple samplings of a single cohort

	Rigid^a	SelfCrit^b	Narcis^c	PerfTOT^d
Rigid^a
SelfCrit^b	.56^f (.48^f)
Narcis^c	−.01 (.20)	.20 (.09)
PerfTOT^d	.75^f (.77^f)	.89^f (.79^f)	.48^f (.57^f)
TOA^e	−.24 (−.42^f)	−.24 (−.18)	−.25 (−.26^g)	−.32^g (.39^f)

^a Self-critical perfectionism,
^b Rigid perfectionism
^c Narcistic perfectionism,
^dTotal perfectionism
^e Tolerance of ambiguity
^f Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
^g Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)

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