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A questionnaire‐based prospective study was carried out to measure the personality styles of students being interviewed for a place on the 1997/98 dental undergraduate course in Leeds, England. A total of 334 applicants attended for interview between November 1997 and March 1998, of which 311 anonymously and voluntarily completed a personality questionnaire. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter was used to measure the strength and nature of preferences along four dimensions: extroversion‐introversion (E‐I), sensing‐intuition (S‐N), thinking‐feeling (T‐F) and judging‐perceiving (J‐P). 4 personality types accounted for 79% of the students, 21% were divided among nine personality types with no type comprising more than 6.7% of the students. The remaining 3 possible personality types were not represented in this student population. Further comparisons revealed significant differences between this student sample and the general population in the judging‐perceiving preference and also an intra‐group gender difference with regard to the thinking‐feeling (T‐F) preference. A predominance of the S‐J (sensing with judging) temperament type was also confirmed. Personality questionnaires may be a use

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Author

David O. Morris

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1396-5883)

Published

2000

Language

EN

Field

Dentistry (Health Sciences)