Table 2 Percentage of physicians who identify with personalities and links to perceived performance
How physicians describe themselves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Responses | Report this personality* | Do not report this personality† | Report a combination of personalities N (%) | ||||
N | N (%) | N (%) | |||||
Workaholic | 1150 | 615 (53) | 318 (28) | Workaholic and Type A | 228 (19) | All three traits | 227 (19) |
Type A | 1148 | 715 (62) | 204 (18) | Type A and control freak | 116 (10) | None of the three traits | 238 (21) |
Control freak | 1149 | 409 (36) | 474 (41) | Workaholic and control freak | 25 (2) | ||
How physicians view the personalities in terms of professional performance | |||||||
Responses | Feel it makes one a better doctor‡ | Do not feel it makes one a better doctor§ | Report this personality and feel it makes one a better doctor | Do not report this personality but feel it makes one a better doctor | Correlations between reporting the personality (or not) and feeling it makes one a better doctor (or not) | ||
N | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | (p value) | ||
Workaholic | 1132 | 418 (37) | 433 (38) | 328/602 (55) | 40/307 (13) | .504 (<0.001) | |
Type A | 1130 | 586 (52) | 258 (23) | 507/705 (72) | 17/194 (9) | .605 (<0.001) | |
Control freak | 1131 | 205 (18) | 651 (58) | 162/402 (40) | 21/455 (5) | .571 (<0.001) | |