Šárka Vévodová*, Andrea Šperková**, Jiří Vévoda*, Radka Kozáková*, Simona Cakirpaloglu Dobešová***
* University of Palacky in Olomouc, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
** University of Palacky in Olomouc, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of midwifery
*** University of Palacky in Olomouc, Faculty of Education, Department of Psychology and psychopathology
VÉVODOVÁ, Š. – ŠPERKOVÁ, A. – VÉVODA, J. – KOZÁKOVÁ, R. – CAKIRPALOGLU DOBEŠOVÁ, S. Psychosocial Profile of Students of Non-Physician Study Programmes. In Ošetrovateľstvo: teória, výskum, vzdelávanie [online], 2016, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 6-11. Available on: https://www.osetrovatelstvo.eu/archiv/2016-rocnik-6/cislo-1/osobnostni-profil-studentu-nelekarskych-zdravotnickych-oboru.
Aim: The aim of the study was to: (a) determine whether there are differences between the personality profiles of students of non-medical healthcare programmes and the population standard; (b) to find out whether there are differences in the personality profiles between students of non-medical health care professions and exact sciences.
Sample and methods: The sample included 141 respondents comprising of students of humanities and students of exact sciences from Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Sciences, Palacký University in Olomouc. As for humanities, the sample included 73 respondents studying General Nursing and Midwifery programmes. The sample of exact sciences included 68 students of Mathematics and informatics. Standardized questionnaires EPQ-R and IVE were used. The research was conducted from December 2014 to November 2015. In order to ascertain statistically significant differences in the data compared, a parametric significance test – Student t-test – was used. Statistical hypotheses were tested on significance level α = 0.05. The IBM SPSS Statistics 20.0 was used for statistical processing and data sorting was performed using Microsoft Excel 2010.
Results: The students of non-medical healthcare programmes had significantly lower score in empathy and extraversion than the population norm. On the psychoticism scale, students of non-medical healthcare programmes scored significantly higher than the population norm. No statistically significant difference was found on the neuroticism scale. A statistically significant difference in personality profiles between students of humanities and exact sciences was confirmed on the extraversion scale, with higher scores amongst students of humanities.
Conclusion: Due to the finding that among the students of the field of study Midwife and General Nurse were detected low levels of empathy and high levels of psychoticism, would be useful to devote more space on the personality development of the health workers during their studies.
Keywords: personality, student, empathy, psychoticism, extraversion, addiction, nurse, midwife
Mgr. Šárka Vévodová, Ph.D.
Ústavu společenských a humanitních věd, FZV UP
Hněvotínská 3
775 03 Olomouc
Česká republika
E-mail: sarka.vevodova@upol.cz
Received: 27th January 2016
Accepted: 7th April 2016