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Table 3 Pre and post-clerkship TOA and perfectionism

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

 

Pre Clerkship (n = 51)

Post Clerkship (n = 62)

    
 

Mean

s.d

Mean

s.d.

t-value

Df

p-value

95%CI

 

SelfCrita

3.22

0.91

3.24

0.86

0.12

111

0.91

−0.31

0.35

Rigidb

3.24

0.97

3.12

0.99

0.62

111

0.54

−0.48

0.25

Narcisc

1.79

0.59

1.81

0.68

0.15

111

0.88

−0.22

0.26

PerfTOTd

2.69

0.59

2.67

0.59

0.13

111

0.90

−0.24

0.21

TOAe

59.47

8.26

43.90

7.61

10.41

111

0.00

−18.53

−12.58

  1. s.d. Standard deviation, Df Degrees of freedom, CI Confidence interval
  2. a Rigid perfectionism,
  3. b Self-critical perfectionism,
  4. c Narcistic perfectionism,
  5. dTotal perfectionism
  6. e Tolerance of ambiguity
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