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Personality and Mental Health of Medical Professionals

Author Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Psychology, University of Pune, Pune-411107, Maharashtra, INDIA

Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 3, Issue (12), Pages 23-27, December,14 (2014)

Abstract

The present study was aimed to study the personality and mental health of medical professionals. The sample size of 100(Females=50, Males=50), from D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pimpri, Pune was selected. They responded to the tools of Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-R, 1975) and Mental Health Checklist (1999). The statistical analysis i.e.,‘t test’ and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation among the three EPQ-R scales along with Mental Health Status was used. In the present study, the obtained finding shows that individuals scoring higher on neuroticism and psychoticism has poor mental health status and individuals with extraversion maintains good mental health status. However, no gender differences were obtained on extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism. These findings are somehow in line with the previous finding; however, the studies related with the mental health are as expected.

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