Relationship Between Personality Traits And Academic Performance Among Medical Students

Abstract

Background

Students’ school results in medicine are shaped by their mental abilities as well as their own personality. Learning about personalities helps create educational strategies beneficial to students’ academic and job skills.

Objectives

To examine the relationship between personality traits and academic performance among newly enrolled medical students and assess gender-based differences in personality profiles.

Study Design: A quantitative, cross-sectional study.

Place and Duration of Study. Department of psychiatry Rawalpindi Medical College from  jan 2022 to jan 2023

Methods

134 students newly admitted to Department of psychiatry Rawalpindi Medical College from  jan 2022 to jan 2023 on this  quantitative, cross-sectional study. Researchers measured personality using the EPQ and evaluated grades with academic records. The data were analyzed with SPSS version 21. In all the analyses, the significance level was maintained at p<0.05.

Results

Out of the 134 participants analyzed. 91.1% of the total group was female, compared with 8.9% male Among participants, ages were between 17 and 21 years (mean: 18.05, standard deviation: 0.76). A positive link was shown between psychoticism and neuroticism (r = .247), but there was no significant correlation between any personality trait and academic performance. Though the sexual differences in neuroticism, psychoticism and extraversion were not strong (p > 0.05), females had more neuroticism and were also more extraverted than males and males had higher scores in psychoticism than females.

Conclusion

Academic achievement in medical students is related to other areas more than their personality traits. Research found these personality trends between genders, but they were not reliable. A further investigation is needed to uncover new aspects that contribute to medical students’ achievements.