Abstract

FEBA, Fabiana  and  MARQUES, Sonia. Psychological characteristics of surgeons and emergency room’s medical doctors: an exploratory study. Psicol inf. [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.14, pp. 44-70. ISSN 1415-8809.

The aim of this study was to identify differences of psychological characteristics between surgeons and medical doctors that belong to emergency rooms (ER). It was chosen the Kersey and Bates (1984)’s proposal of temperaments as the theoretical base to discuss the finds. Fifty medical doctors were contacted, 25 surgeons and 25 ER’s doctors. They answered questions about their motifs for choosing their areas of actuation. Afterwards they answered a Personal Inclinations Indicator, based on Kersey and Bates’ instrument. As was theoretically expected, it was possible to identify that the temperament most frequent among the surgeons was sensation/judgement - SJ and the temperament most frequent among the ER’s doctors was sensation/ perception.

Keywords : temperaments; professional choice; medical doctors.

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