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의과대학 학생들의 성격유형과 대인관계욕구 특성

The characteristics of medical students' personality types and interpersonal needs

Korean Journal of Medical Education 2013;25(4):309-316.
Published online: December 31, 2013

1건양대학교 의과대학 교수개발 및 멘토링센터

2가톨릭대학교 의과대학 의학교육학과

1Faculty Development & Mentoring Center, Konyang University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea.

2Department of Medical Education, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Corresponding Author: Sun Kim Department of Medical Education, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, 222, Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea Tel: +82.2.2258.7203 Fax: +82.2.2258.7794 email: skim@catholic.ac.kr
• Received: January 25, 2013   • Revised: August 30, 2013   • Accepted: October 10, 2013

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Fig. 1. Level of Interpersonal NeedsData are presented as mean±SD.
Fig. 2. Level of Interpersonal Needs on Characteristic TypesData are presented as mean scores. (A) expressed – ICA. (B) wanted – ICA.ICA: Inclusion, Control, and Affection, E: Extraversion, I: Introversion, S: Sensing N: intuition, T: Thinking, F: Feeling, J: Judging, P: Perceiving.
The characteristics of medical students' personality types and interpersonal needs
Personality types Males (n=99) Females (n=72) Total (n=171)



No. (%) p-valuea) No. (%) p-valuea) No. (%)
Focus of your attention E 55 (55.56) 0.269 36 (50.00) 1 91 (53.22)
I 44 (44.44) 36 (50.00) 80 (46.78)
The way you take information S 59 (59.60) 0.056 49 (68.06) 0.002 108 (63.16)
N 40 (40.4) 46 (63.89) 63 (36.84)
The way you make decisions T 56 (56.57) 0.191 46 (63.89) 0.018 102 (59.65)
F 43 (43.43) 26 (36.11) 69 (40.35)
How you deal with the other world J 50 (50.51) 0.920 46 (63.89) 0.018 96 (56.14)
P 49 (49.49) 26 (36.11) 75 (43.86)
Sensing types Intuitive types


Thinking (%) Feeling (%) Thinking (%) Feeling (%)
Judging/Introverts ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ
28 (16.37) 9 (5.26) 2 (1.17) 4 (2.34)
Perceiving/Introverts ISTP ISFP INFP INTP
9 (5.26) 10 (5.85) 8 (4.68) 10 (5.85)
Judging/Extraverts ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ
24 (14.04) 18 (10.53) 5 (2.92) 6 (3.51)
Perceiving/Extraverts ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP
9 (5.26) 1 (0.58) 16 (9.36) 12 (7.02)
Variable Males (n=99) Females (n=72) t p-valuea)


Mean SD Mean SD
Basic social needs Inclusion 8.24 4.33 7.96 4.03 0.44 0.663
Control 9.19 2.91 8.24 2.59 2.22 0.028
Affection 8.28 4.20 7.79 4.41 0.74 0.461
Behavior expressed 12.63 5.03 11.39 5.30 1.55 0.123
wanted 13.09 5.56 12.60 5.67 0.57 0.570
Overall interpersonal needs 25.72 8.95 23.99 9.33 1.23 0.222
Variable Personality types t p-valuea)

E (n=91) I (n=80)


Mean SD Mean SD
Basic social needs Inclusion 9.26 4.02 6.83 4.03 3.95 <0.001
Control 9.21 2.65 8.31 2.93 2.10 0.037
Affection 9.14 4.22 6.86 4.05 3.59 <0.001
Behavior expressed 14.50 4.38 9.39 4.65 7.39 <0.001
wanted 13.12 5.26 12.61 5.97 0.59 0.554
Overall interpersonal needs 27.62 8.22 22.00 9.24 4.21 <0.001
Table 1. Distributions and Differences of Personality Types within Each Gender

EI: Extraversion-Introversion, SN: Sensing-Intuition, TF: Thinking-Feeling, JP: Judging-Perceiving.

p-values from one-sample proportion test (p=0.5).

Table 2. Distributions of Characteristics Types
Table 3. Differences of Interpersonal Needs between Gender

SD: Standard deviation.

p-values from t-test (males vs. females) (p<0.05).

Table 4. Differences between Level of Interpersonal Needs and Personality Types (E-I)

E-I: Extraversion-Introversion, SD: Standard deviation.

p-values from t-test (p<0.05).