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Table 2 Relationship between perfectionism and TOA pre-clerkship and post-clerkship (post-clerkship relationship in brackets)

From: The erosion of ambiguity tolerance and sustainment of perfectionism in undergraduate medical training: results from multiple samplings of a single cohort

  Rigida SelfCritb Narcisc PerfTOTd
Rigida
SelfCritb .56f (.48f)    
Narcisc −.01 (.20) .20 (.09)   
PerfTOTd .75f (.77f) .89f (.79f) .48f (.57f)  
TOAe −.24 (−.42f) −.24 (−.18) −.25 (−.26g) −.32g (.39f)
  1. a Self-critical perfectionism,
  2. b Rigid perfectionism
  3. c Narcistic perfectionism,
  4. dTotal perfectionism
  5. e Tolerance of ambiguity
  6. f Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
  7. g Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
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