Wolf, Thomas Gerhard; Speyer, Valerie Fabienne Sonja; Burkhard, Peter (2022). "How obsessive are dentists?" - A Personality Styles & Disorder Inventory based prospective, controlled study. Journal of dentistry, 124, p. 104217. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jdent.2022.104217
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OBJECTIVES
The aim of this study was to examine the typical personality traits of dentists and to discuss critically their influence on the necessary characteristics for a good dentist-patient relationship.
METHODS
Two groups were invited via e-mail to participate the study in 2015-2020. One group consisted of German dentists (DENT N=580). The other group was formed by German speaking psychotherapists from Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH N=1.027). The Personality Styles and Disorder Inventory was used in its short form (PSDI-S) via online survey. The normalization sample (NORM N=3.392) of the PSDI-S was used to compare the results with a normative sample.
RESULTS
Dentists differed in 10 out of 14 personality styles from the normalization sample (NORM), and in 13 out of 14 personality styles compared with the psychotherapists (DACH). Female dentists differed in 7 out of 14 personality styles to their male colleagues.
CONCLUSIONS
The most significant differences in personality styles were willful (PN), spontaneous (BL), reserved (SZ), ambitious (NA), optimistic (RH) and conscientious (ZW), which seem to be necessary for a good dentist-patient relationship and dental procedures. The expression of personality styles is most likely to influence the choice, delivery and cost as well as patient perception of treatment.
CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE
Dentist's personality has an important impact on the interpersonal, which influences the dentist-patient relationship and its therapeutic outcome.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Preventive, Restorative and Pediatric Dentistry |
UniBE Contributor: |
Wolf, Thomas Gerhard, Burkhard, Peter |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1879-176X |
Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
11 Jul 2022 14:20 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 16:21 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.jdent.2022.104217 |
PubMed ID: |
35809646 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
dentist personality dentist-patient relationship personality styles |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/171204 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/171204 |
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