[Influence of gender in vocational preferences and personality traits in Medical students]. / Influencia del sexo en las preferencias vocacionales y rasgos de personalidad en los estudiantes de Medicina.

OBJECTIVE: In this paper, we try to analyze he possible relationships between gender of the Medical students, their personality and their vocational preferences. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A total of 1,482 2nd year medical students from the Valencia University were analyzed. They answered and anonymous survey on their sociodemographic characteristics and their vocational interests. We determined their personality profile with the 16 PF of Cattell. The data obtained were analyzed with the logistic regression techniques. RESULTS: Most of the population analyzed were female (62.7%) with a medium age of 20 years. The Pediatric and Gynecology-Obstetrics specialities were preferred mostly by female students and Orthopedic surgery by male students. The female students had a specific personality traits, they were more <> (A+), <> (G+), Boldness (H+), <> (n+) and <> (Q3+). While the male students were more <> (I+), <> (L+), <> (M+), <> Q2(+). CONCLUSIONS: Gender has a significant influence on the medical student both in their vocational preferences as well as their personality profile.

[Vocational definition in the medical students: The influence of personality]. / Definición vocacional en los estudiantes de Medicina: influencia de la personalidad.

UNLABELLED: The vocational indefinition has been related by different authors with higher levels of personal immaturity, dependency sentiments or anxiety. In this paper, we analyses the possible rapport between specific personality traits and the vocational definition in the Medical Students. MATERIAL AND METHOD: It has been analyses 1484 students of 2nd year of Medicine in the Valencia University. They have responded an anonymous interview about their characteristic sociodemographics and their vocational interests. We determinate their Personality Profile with the 16 P.F. of Cattell. The done got has been analysed with Techniques of Regression Logistic. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The majority of the analysed population were female (62,7%) and with a medium age of 20 years. The majority of the students have definite vocationally in the 2nd year of Medicine: the 81% against the 19%. The students who haven't defined vocationally trend to be more unstable (C-), expedient (G-), strong minded (I-) and shrewd (N+). CONCLUSIONS: The results of our study seems to confirm the association between the career indecision in the Medical Students and specifics traits of personality, particularly the traits associated with the immaturity personal.

[Personality factors and psychiatry specialty attraction]. / Factores de personalidad y atracción por la especialidad de Psiquiatría.

INTRODUCTION: In this article, we analyse the possible rapport between the determined trends of personality and the Psychiatry Specialty and we try determinate the existence of certain Profiles of Personality in the students who feel attracted by this specialty. MATERIAL AND METHOD: We analyse 1484 students of second year of Medicine Faculty's of the Valencia University (Spain). An anonymity interview about the sociodemographics characteristic and vocational interests of the students has done. We determinate their personality profile with the Test of personality 16 PF of Cattell. We analyse the dates with an t-Student Test. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: The population analyses was of predominantly feminine (62.7%) and with an age medium of 20 years. The Psychiatry specialty was chose by the 8.06% of the students. These students tend be in reference with the another students sensitive, immature emotionally, insure. (I+) and unstable, impulsive, untidy (Q3-). The bibliographic revision tend to confirm this tendency.

Psychologic factors and oral lichen planus. A psychometric evaluation of 100 cases.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to analyze the importance of psychologic factors in patients with oral lichen planus, and attempts were made to identify possible personality features characteristic of patients with oral lichen planus. STUDY DESIGN: The study involved 100 patients with oral lichen planus (group 1) and 50 control subjects (group 2). We applied the following psychometric tests to both groups: Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Cattell Personality Questionnaire 16PF, Hassanyeh Rating of Anxiety-Depression-Vulnerability, Beck Depression Inventory, Raskin Depression Screen, and Covi Anxiety Screen. RESULTS: The patients with oral lichen planus were found to exhibit greater anxiety, as reflected by statistically significant scores with the anxiety tests that were used (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Cattell Personality Questionnaire 16PF, Hassanyeh Rating of Anxiety-Depression-Vulnerability, and Covi Anxiety Screen). The patients with oral lichen planus likewise exhibited greater depression than the controls in all 3 depression tests applied (Beck Depression Inventory, Hassanyeh Rating of Anxiety-Depression-Vulnerability, and Raskin Depression Screen) and were more vulnerable to psychic disorders on the basis of the PD subscales (vulnerability) of the Hassanyeh questionnaire. Three features (conformity to the group, astuteness, and rebelliousness) defined the personalities of our patients with oral lichen planus, according to the Cattell 16PF questionnaire. Finally, those patients with erosive lichen planus exhibited higher depression scores than patients with nonerosive lichen planus. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the higher anxiety scores observed in patients with oral lichen planus, it was not established that the observed psychologic alterations constitute a direct etiologic factor of oral lichen planus; nor was it established that such alterations are a consequence of oral lichen planus and its lesions.

Analysis of the attitudes and emotional processes in couples undergoing artificial insemination by donor.

Osgood's Semantic Differential Questionnaire was used to study 40 couples undergoing an artificial insemination by donor (AID) programme. The following reference concepts were used: Father, Mother, Work, Marriage, Myself, Children, Pregnancy, Guilt, Sex and Family. The results show that women consider ¿being a Mother' as something emotionally ¿warm', take a positive position, feel ¿nervous' and wish the event happened quickly; this is significantly different to men, who give less importance to this fact. Men are more concerned about the pregnancy and consider it a ¿hard', ¿strong' and ¿heavy' experience. The score in the concept Guilt significantly stands out from the rest of the concepts in both men and women; it is also striking how AID women relate the concept Mother with the concept Father, whereas men establish the association between Mother and Work.

Personality characteristics analysis in couples undergoing artificial insemination.

The personality characteristics of 40 couples admitted into an artificial insemination scheme have been analysed. The personality study was carried out using Cattell's questionnaire 16 PF (form C) and EPI questionnaire (Eysenck Personality Inventory). The results show significant statistical differences between males and females with a greater conformity with the group, in women; women are also bolder and more disciplined from an emotional point of view, whereas men are more radical.

[Psychiatric practice and dentistry: anthropological and clinical relations]. / La práctica psiquiátrica y odontológica: relaciones antropológicas y clínicas.

The authors establish the clinical and anthropological connections relative to the buccal patient. Although apparently the relationship between the psychiatrist and the patient is diametrically opposite to the relationship that a buccolic professional may have with a patient, however, the reflexion which is developed in the work shows, from a wholistic and anthropological perspective, that both professional activities are confluent when dealing with the conception of "sick patient". Two clinical cases illustrate the difficulties which, sometimes, appear in the relationship between the psychiatrist and the ondotologist.

[The delusion of lycanthropic transformation]. / El delirio de transformación licantrópico.

The authors describe one case of Lycanthropy and revise the literature about this theme. They observe that Lycanthropy has received scant attention in the modern literature, but appears to have survived into modern times. In some cases the patient (as a Delusion) has the belief that he has been transformed into an animal. In other cases there appears only what seems to be behaviour of an animal. About the first group, the authors make a phenomenological analysis and present a clinical case of Lycanthropic delusion.