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Table 2 Respondents’ average rating of the importance of 10 criteria for choosing a university major, grouped by field of study aimed for. All tests were comparisons with human medicine

From: Motivation and personality factors of Generation Z high school students aspiring to study human medicine

Criteria for choosing field of study

Human medicine

Faculty of arts & social sciences

Natural sciences, technical fields

Law/economics

Other/undecided

P-value Anova

 

N = 149

N = 100

N = 98

N = 57

N = 52

 

 Interest in the field

8.32

8.95

7.98

8.49

8.44

0.250

 Job security

6.55

6.38

6.37

6.82

6.77

0.603

 Income

6.01

6.27

6.48

7.53

6.35

0.002

 Meaningful work

6.55

5.93

4.87

4.51

5.29

 < 0.001

 Career opportunities

5.22

4.85

4.86

6.32

5.25

0.004

 Opportunity to work independently

5.11

5.25

4.87

4.23

4.65

0.086

 Teamwork

5.11

5.17

5.23

4.25

5.04

0.133

 Working hours

4.36

4.63

4.87

4.26

5.04

0.220

 Social prestige

4.33

3.67

4.35

5.14

3.44

0.006

 Length of studies

3.46

3.90

4.18

3.46

4.73

0.013

  1. Respondents’ rating of the importance of 10 criteria for choosing a university major, grouped by field of study aimed for. Response options from "1 = not important at all" to "10 = very much important"