scholarly journals Motivation and personality factors of Generation Z high school students aspiring to study human medicine

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara M Holzer ◽  
Oriane Ramuz ◽  
Christoph E Minder ◽  
Lukas Zimmerli
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Human Medicine ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Generation Z

Abstract Background A new generation of medical students, Generation Z (Gen Z), is becoming the predominant population in medical schools and will join the workforce in a few years’ time. Medicine has undergone serious changes in high-income countries recently. Therefore, it is unclear how attractive the medical profession still is for high school students of Gen Z. The aim of this study was to investigate what motivation leads Gen Z students in their choice to study human medicine, and how they see their professional future. Our study was guided by motivation theory and the influence of personality traits and other personal factors on students’ choice of university major. Methods In a cross-sectional online survey, we included third- and fourth-year high school students in Northern Switzerland. We examined the importance of criteria when choosing a university major: personality traits, career motivation, life goals, and other considerations influencing the choice of human medicine versus other fields of study. Results Of 1790 high school students, 456 (25.5%) participated in the survey (72.6% women, mean age 18.4 years); 32.7% of the respondents aspired to major in medicine at university. For all respondents, the foremost criterion for selecting a field of study was ‘interest in the field,’ followed by ‘income’ and ‘job security.’ High school students aiming to study human medicine attached high importance to ‘meaningful work’ as a criterion; supported by 36.2% of those students answering that helping and healing people was a core motivation to them. They also scored high on altruism (p < 0.001 against all groups compared) and intrinsic motivation (p < 0.001) and were highly performance- (p < 0.001) and career-minded (p < 0.001). In contrast, all the other groups except the law/economics group had higher scores on extraprofessional concerns. Conclusions Swiss Gen Z students aspiring to study human medicine show high intrinsic motivation, altruism, and willingness to perform, sharing many values with previous generations. Adequate work-life balance and job security are important issues for Gen Z. Regarding the current working conditions, the ongoing shortage of physicians, and recent findings on physicians’ well-being, the potential for improvement and optimization is high.

scholarly journals The Role of Personality Traits in Predicting Senior High School Students’ Academic Buoyancy

2019 ◽  
pp. 1336-1340
Author(s):  
Meilani Rohinsa ◽  
Surya Cahyadi ◽  
Achmad Djunaidi ◽  
Tb. Zulrizka Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Buoyancy ◽  
Senior High School Students

All students have to face academic pressures, setbacks and challenges that are part of their everyday academic life. The capacity to deal with this, i.e. ‘academic buoyancy’, is needed to reduce the impact of academic adversity. Since academic buoyancy may be associated with personality, our study explored the role of personality trait, especially the ‘big five’, as predictors of the academic buoyancy in senior high school students in an Eastern culture. Methods: Using quota sampling, 356 respondents were sampled from the eight largest senior high schools in Bandung, Indonesia. Five personality factors were measured using the Big Five Inventory. Furthermore, academic buoyancy was assessed utilizing the Academic Buoyancy Scale. Multiple regression analysis was used to analyze the predictive value of each trait for academic buoyancy. Result: Academic buoyancy appears to be related to personality differences. We found three personality traits which predicted positively and significantly academic buoyancy, namely Conscientiousness, Agreeableness and Extraversion. Conclusions: The study has provided a new understanding of the relevance of personality for academic student’s life. Implications and differences in relation between personality and academic buoyancy in senior high school’ student are discussed.

Relationships of Personality Factors with Clinical Dimensions and School Achievement

1996 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Forns-Santacana ◽  
Bernardí Martorell-Balanzó ◽  
Juan Antonio Amador-Campos ◽  
Judit Abad-Gil
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Clinical Analysis ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
School Students

This study analyzes the association of personality traits, psychopathological factors, and school achievement. High School Personality Questionnaire, Clinical Analysis Questionnaire, and academic marks of 224 high school students (90 boys and 134 girls) are used. It can be stated that the predictive ability of measures of personality traits and clinical dimensions is very weak for both boys and girls. The Clinical Analysis Questionnaire does not seem to be useful in the prediction of school achievement.

scholarly journals Self-Expressive Creativity in the Adolescent Digital Domain: Personality, Self-Esteem, and Emotions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 4527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pérez-Fuentes ◽  
Molero Jurado ◽  
Gázquez Linares ◽  
Oropesa Ruiz ◽  
Simón Márquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Negative Effect

Background: Although self-expressive creativity is related to cyberbullying, it can also reinforce strengths that contribute to positive adolescent development. Our study concentrated on the relationships between personality traits and self-expressive creativity in the digital domain in an adolescent population. For this, we analyzed the effect of self-esteem and emotional intelligence as assets for positive development related to personality traits and self-expressive creativity. Methods: The study population included a total of 742 adolescents that were high-school students in the province of Almería, Spain. The following instruments were used: Big Five Inventory (BFI) to evaluate the five broad personality factors, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE), Expression, Management, and Emotion Recognition Evaluation Scale (TMMS-24), and the Creative Behavior Questionnaire: Digital (CBQD). Results: The cluster analysis revealed the existence of two profiles of adolescents based on their personality traits. The analysis showed that the group with the highest levels of extraversion and openness to experience and lowest levels of neuroticism were those who showed the highest scores in self-esteem, clarity, and emotional repair, as well as in self-expressive creativity. Higher scores in neuroticism and lower scores in extraversion and openness to experience showed a direct negative effect on self-expressive creativity and indirect effect through self-esteem and emotional attention, which acted as mediators in series. Conclusions: To counteract certain characteristics that increase adolescents’ vulnerability to social network bullying, a plan must be developed for adequate positive use of the Internet from a creative model that enables digital self-expression for acquiring identity and self-efficacy through the positive influence of peers, which promotes feelings of empowerment and self-affirmation through constructive tasks that reinforce self-esteem and emotional intelligence.

scholarly journals SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT AND EDUCATIONAL SITUATION OF MODERN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Lilia A. Belozerova ◽  
◽  
Valeria V. Vershinina ◽  
Sergey V. Danilov ◽  
Natalia S. Krivtsova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
Educational Situation ◽  
Senior Students ◽  
Intellectual Characteristics

The article summarises the preliminary results of a three-stage study of the influence of the socio-cultural context on the life and educational manifestations of modern high school students. Firstly, data on the Russian representatives of «Generation Z» were specified. At the second stage of the research, the manifestations of «Generation Z» representatives, regarding everyday school life were studied. At the third stage of the research, there were analysed different educational learning situations as opportunities for senior students to show the behavioural and intellectual characteristics inherent in the digital generation. The main results of the study make it possible to set new tasks in the study of the socio-cultural context of the educational situation of modern high school students.

Meanders of Landscape Perception. Empirical Studies among High School Students / Meandry percepcji krajobrazu. Badania empiryczne wśród młodzieży gimnazjalnej

2014 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paweł Pytka
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Young People ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
External Factors ◽  
School Students ◽  
Landscape Perception ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Complex Process

AbstractLandscape perception is a complex process, conditioned by a number of external factors related to perceived characteristics of landspace and resulting from personality traits and psychosocial level of development of the recipient. Important elements which condition the overall perception of the landscape are significant places - places of symbolic, magical, leisure qualities. Selection, type and characteristics of these places will depend on individual preferences of the recipient of the landscape. The studies carried out among young people from Bieszczady indicate significant subjective choice of places, often a given image differs from the usual stereotypes. Regularity as well as aberrances in the perception and evaluation of sites described in this paper was observed.

scholarly journals Exploring the Psychometric Properties of Mandarin-Translated Zuckerman Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire among Chinese High School Students in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S10) ◽  
pp. 790-794
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Personality Testing ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
School Students ◽  
Factor Loadings ◽  
Chinese High School Students

The Zuckerman Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ-50-CC) is widely used tool to measure personality traits among the test takers and has been translated in various languages. However, based on the literatures related to personality, it is apparent that there is no Mandarin translated ZKPQ is available to measure personality traits among Chinese population based on the Alternative Five Factor Model. Therefore, the aim of this study is to validate and explore the psychometric properties of the Mandarin-translated version of the Zuckerman Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire. A cross-sectional study was designed involving 250 Malaysian Chinese High school students, aged thirteen to eighteen. Forward-backward translations were performed followed by the factor analysis and reliability testing. The five factors structure was assessed and the factor loadings are similar with the Malay version of ZKPQ. This Mandarin translated ZKPQ comprised of 38 items with the factor loadings ranged from 0.41 to 0.79. The reliability values also showed that Mandarin translated ZKPQ is reliable. As such, the Mandarin translated ZKPQ was found to be valid and reliable to use among Mandarin speaking population for the purpose of personality testing and screening.

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