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Table 4 Effects of nationality, field of study, respondent sex, profession of relative, and degree of relatedness to relative on the familial aggregation of physicians, psychologists, and psychotherapists among medical and psychology students

From: Unto the third generation: evidence for strong familial aggregation of physicians, psychologists, and psychotherapists among first-year medical and psychology students in a nationwide Austrian cohort census

Effect

b (SE)

OR [95% confidence interval]

Nationality (German/other vs. Austrian)

0.17 (0.08)*

1.19 [1.01–1.40]

Field of study (psychology vs. medicine)

−1.07 (0.10)***

0.34 [0.28–0.42]

Respondent sex (men vs. women)

0.12 (0.12)

1.13 [0.89–1.43]

Degree of relatedness (third vs. first)

−0.004 (0.10)

1.00 [0.83–1.20]

 (second vs. first)

−0.07 (0.09)

0.94 [0.78–1.12]

Profession of relative (psychology vs. medicine)

−2.14 (0.17)***

0.12 [0.08–0.16]

 (psychotherapy vs. medicine)

−2.82 (0.21)***

0.06 [0.04–0.09]

Respondent sex (men) × degree of relatedness (second)

−0.27 (0.14)

0.76 [0.58–1.01]

Respondent sex (men) × degree of relatedness (third)

−0.52 (0.16)**

0.60 [0.44–0.81]

Respondent sex (men) × profession of relative (psychology)

0.09 (0.18)

1.09 [0.77–1.56]

Respondent sex (men) × profession of relative (psychotherapy)

0.09 (0.23)

1.09 [0.70–1.71]

Field of study (psychology) × profession of relative (psychology)

1.51 (0.19)***

4.53 [3.16–6.51]

Field of study (psychology) × profession of relative (psychotherapy)

1.46 (0.23)***

4.32 [2.77–6.73]

  1. Only non-redundant model parameters are presented here. With regards to investigated effects, only interactions of substantive interest were included in the models (see main text)
  2. Significant effects (p < .05) are printed boldface *p <. 05, **p < .01, ***p < .001