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ePoster Viewing part 6
e-Poster Viewing: Personality and personality
disorders
EV0936
Personality traits and specialty choice
among Oman medical specialty board
residents
M. Al Alawi ∗, H. Al Sinawi , S. Al Huseini
1 Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Behavioral Medicine, Muscat,
Oman
2 Oman Medical Specialty Board, Psychiatry, Muscat, Oman
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Understanding factors that determine the choice of
a specialty among junior doctors are crucial for career counsel-
ing and candidates selection. Most studies focused on working
hours, income and other lifestyle factors. However, few studies
have explored the role of personality traits of the doctors in influ-
encing specialty choice.
Aims To examine the relation between personality traits and spe-
cialty choice among residents at Oman Medical Specialty Board
(OMSB).
Methodology Residents from different specialties were invited to
participate in this study by completing Eysenck Personality Ques-
tionnaire – Revised (EPQ-R) and Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS)
& Behavioral Activation System (BAS) scale.
Results A total of 255 residents participated in the study (M= 40%,
F = 60%). Surgical residents scored significantly higher on the Psy-
choticism sub-scale (P-value, 0.002) and the Behavioral Activation
System (BAS) scale compared to nonsurgical residents (P-value,
0.05). On the other hand, medical residents scored higher in Behav-
ioral Inhibition System sub-scale suggesting a tendency towards
avoidance of anxiety-provoking situation (P = 0.023). Concerning
neuroticism trait, psychiatrists had the lowest score indicating
more emotional stability. Residents from diagnostic specialties
score the highest in BAS–Fun seeking with a difference reaching
the level of statistical significance.
Conclusion The findings of this study suggest a possible cor-
relation between career choice and personality traits. Therefore,
adapting a well-constructed, efficient and standardized selection
approach is of great importance. A reasonable framework for con-
ceptualizing specialty choice would be recognizing one’s own
personality traits along with exploring social and technical factors
related to a particular specialty.
Disclosure of interest The authors have not supplied their decla-
ration of competing interest.
EV0937
Portuguese validation of the
Psychological Entitlement Scale
A.I. Araújo ∗, A.T. Pereira , C. Cabac¸ os , M.J. Brito ,
L. Mendonc¸ a , A. Macedo
1 Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Department of
Psychological Medicine, Macieira de Cambra, Portugal
2 Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
3 Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine,
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
∗ Corresponding author.
Introduction Psychological entitlement can be conceived as a dis-
position to believe that one deserves or is entitled to more than
others. This pervasive sense has a wide impact on social behaviour,
namely undesirable social outcomes. Given these theoretical impli-
cations on self-concept and interpersonal functioning, Campbell
and Bonacci developed a shorter questionnaire of the Psycholog-
ical Entitlement Scale (PES) to evaluate this construct by reducing
from the original version from 57 to 9 items.
Objective To investigate the psychometric properties of Psycho-
logical Entitlement Portuguese version.
Methods A community sample composed of 286 university stu-
dents (69.2% females; mean age = 21.09 ±2.133; range: 17–33)
answered the Portuguese preliminary versions of the PES, of the
Dirty Dozen and of the honesty-humility dimension from the
HEXACO-100.
Results The PES Cronbach alpha was “very good” (a = 0.75). Fol-
lowing Kaiser and Cattel Scree Plot criteria, only one factor was
extracted (explained variance = 35.46%), meaning that the scale is
unidimensional. Pearson correlation coefficient of between PES
and narcissism (r = 0.36), psychopathy (r = 0.21) and Machiavelism
(r = 0.24) were positive, moderate and significant (P < 0.01). Pear-
son correlation between PES and honesty-humility was negative,
moderate and significant (r = −0.43 P < 0.05).
Conclusions The Portuguese version of PES present good internal
consistency and convergent-divergent validity. Because we con-
sider that psychological entitlement reflects a stable disposition,
it is our intent to analyze PES temporal stability within the ongo-
ing research project on the relationship between perfectionismand
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