Illustration of self-perceived knowledge, skills, and interests in undergraduate dental students using a visual metaphor– results of a monocentric cross-sectional study

Table 4 Correlations between knowledge, skills, and interests in the total cohort of 75 students

	Knowledge and skills		Interests and skills		Interests and knowledge
	Spearman rho	p value	Spearman rho	p value	Spearman rho	p value
Whole field of conservative dentistry and periodontology	0.642	< 0.01	0.415	0.10	0.253	0.03
Endodontology	0.686	< 0.01	0.247	0.03	0.451	< 0.01
Periodontology	0.787	< 0.01	0.266	0.02	0.351	< 0.01
Cariology	0.685	< 0.01	0.144	0.22	0.366	< 0.01
Restorative dentistry	0.767	< 0.01	0.419	< 0.01	0.314	0.01
Preventive dentistry	0.802	< 0.01	0.126	0.28	0.240	0.04

Values are given as the distance between the object and subject disc in millimeters, shown as the mean values and standard deviation. Significant findings are expressed in bold font (p < 0.05)

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