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Table 5 Relationship between specialty choices and TOA and perfectionism pre-clerkship

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

 

Primary care (n = 28)

Other (n = 23)

     
 

Mean

s.d.

Mean

s.d.

t-value

df

p-value

95%CI

 

SelfCrita

3.08

0.75

3.40

1.06

1.27

49

0.21

−0.83

0.19

Rigidb

2.91

0.98

3.63

0.82

2.80

49

0.01

−1.24

−0.20

Narcisc

1.65

0.55

1.96

0.61

1.86

49

0.07

−0.63

0.02

PerfTOTd

2.50

0.54

2.92

0.59

−2.62

49

0.01

−0.73

−0.10

TOAe

60.04

9.34

58.77

6.86

0.54

49

0.59

−3.44

5.97

  1. s.d. Standard deviation, Df Degrees of freedom, CI Confidence interval
  2. a Self-critical perfectionism,
  3. bRigid perfectionism
  4. c Narcistic perfectionism,
  5. dTotal perfectionism
  6. e Tolerance of ambiguity
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