The coping strategies during medical education predict style of success in medical career: a 10-year longitudinal study

Table 1 Descriptions of the three styles of success in a medical career dimensions: cluster analysis (Bineary Euclidean distance measure and Ward’s linkage method)

	1. Committed satisfied with career n=14	2. Clever satisfied with life n=20	3. Bright unsatisfied n=16			Committed vs Clever	Committed vs Bright	Clever vs Bright
	M ± SD	M ± SD	M ± SD	F (2;47)	P	Tukey’s	post-	hoc test
Postgraduate medical competence	−0.62 ± 0.61	−0.50 ± 0.53	1.17 ± 0.61	48,256***	<0.001	0,53	<0.001***	0,00**
Satisfaction with medicine as a career	0.95 ± 0.68	−0.47 ± 0.47	−0.24 ± 0.85	20,180***	<0.001	<0.001***	<0.001***	0,31
Work stress and burnout	0.33 ± 0.48	−0.27 ± 0.43	0.07 ± 0.45	7,365***	<0.001	<0.001***	0,13	0,03*
Quality of Life General well-being	−0.29 ± 0.81	0.49 ± 0.55	−0.35 ± 0.60	9,499***	<0.001	<0.001***	0,80	<0.001***
Quality of Life Life satisfaction	−0.60 ± 0.78	0.76 ± 0.45	−0.89± 0.86	29,090***	<0.001	<0.001***	0,26	<0.001***
Quality of Life Income	3.57 ± 0.51	3.80 ± 0.41	2.63 ± 0.89	16,803***	<0.001	0,31	<0.001***	<0.001***

Source: Tartas M, Walkiewicz M, Budziński W, Majkowicz M, Wójcikiewicz K. The sense of coherence and styles of success in the medical career: a longitudinal study. BMC Med Educ. 2014;14:254. doi:10.1186/s12909-014-0254-5
*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001

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