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Table 1 Personal characteristics of participants (n = 94)

From: Influence of clerks’ personality on their burnout in the clinical workplace: a longitudinal observation

Variables

Mean

SD

Frequency

%

Age

23.38

2.42

  

Gender

 Male

  

49

52

 Female

  

45

48

Living status

 Alone

  

31

33

 Accompanied

  

63

67

Religion

 No

  

62

66

 Yes

  

32

34

Personality

 Extroversion

3.07

0.88

  

 Agreeableness

3.86

0.56

  

 Consciousness

3.45

0.75

  

 Emotional Stability

3.26

0.85

  

 Openness

3.63

0.70

  

Burnout*

 First-year clerkship

24.35

5.11

  

 Second-year clerkship

23.55

5.57

  
  1. *Significant difference (P < .05) was observed between the first- and second-year clerkship students examined using mixed modelling that accounted for repeated measures of individual participant burnout
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