Table 2 Professional identity descriptions among senior (graduated before 2007) and junior (graduated between 2007–2018) physicians. The proportions of physicians who answered “very or quite well” to the question “How well do the following descriptions of the work of a physician match you as a physician?”, and the corresponding associations (odds ratios, junior physicians as a reference group)

80.1

86.9

0.90 (0.72–1.14)

0.387

80.1

85.8

0.78 (0.64–0.95)

0.015

77.6

83.1

0.72 (0.60–0.87)

0.001

75.3

76.6

1.07 (0.90–1.28)

0.433

57.8

51.2

1.46 (1.26–1.70)

< 0.001

55.4

44.3

1.50 (1.30–1.74)

< 0.001

54.0

42.3

2.00 (1.72–2.32)

< 0.001

53.1

45.4

1.29 (1.11–1.50)

0.001

51.7

59.7

0.81 (0.69–0.94)

0.006

51.4

55.0

0.91 (0.78–1.06)

0.230

48.5

41.8

1.44 (1.24–1.68)

< 0.001

45.1

68.4

0.46 (0.39–0.54)

< 0.001

40.7

25.8

2.11 (1.80–2.49)

< 0.001

35.3

57.3

0.49 (0.42–0.57)

< 0.001

34.5

20.2

2.26 (1.89–2.70)

< 0.001

32.6

22.6

1.79 (1.51–2.13)

< 0.001

32.4

52.4

0.50 (0.42–0.58)

< 0.001

31.8

50.9

0.54 (0.46–0.63)

< 0.001

31.5

33.1

1.18 (0.98–1.41)

0.075

30.0

36.9

1.05 (0.90–1.23)

0.520

26.9

26.0

1.03 (0.87–1.22)

0.747

25.5

8.8

2.63 (1.95–3.55)

< 0.001

22.0

18.8

1.27 (1.05–1.54)

0.013

21.1

37.4

0.62 (0.53–0.72)

< 0.001

17.9

33.5

0.57 (0.48–0.67)

< 0.001

17.0

21.6

0.70 (0.58–0.84)

< 0.001

3.4

4.1

0.78 (0.53–1.14)

0.193