ABSTRACT

Personality styles are factor pairs or personality traits interacting with each other and with other characteristics of the person and the environment. In order to determine the impact of the various personality styles and psychomorbidity on the academic performance of new entrants to the medical school, 142 voluntary participants were recruited from a private University in South India. They were administered the Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) and Self-rating Depression Scale(SDS) devised by Zung. The personality traits of the students were elucidated using the NEO-FFI of Costa & Mc Crae. One way Anova revealed a significant difference between the percentage of marks secured by normal students and those with depression (p<0.01) among the students belonging to the “directed” personality style; the performance of those with anxiety and those with depression was also found to differ significantly (p<0.05).Pearson’s Correlation revealed a negative correlation between the percentage of marks and SDS scores in the “directed” group of students. Multiple logistic regression analysis showed that Neuroticism is the best predictor for students securing average marks (50-69%).Our findings reveal that psychopathology does not hinder academic performance in the various categories of personality styles, except the “directed” group. In the case of “ over controlled” group of students, all the students have some form of psychopathology or the other, most of them being neurotic perfectionists. We can infer that psychological well-being is not the prime determinant of academic achievement among medical freshmen. Other factors like neurotic perfectionism may play key roles in academic achievement among this group. Keywords: Psychomorbidity, Psychosocial Predictors, Anova
Publication date: 01/07/2023

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2023/12.7.7249