title: Some personality correlates of the A-B therapist scale for male and female medical students.
abstract: Provided more knowledge about the personality dimensions that underlie the A-B scale particularly with respect to potential sex differences. A-B scores of two samples, 155 male and 36 female medical students, were related to their scale scores from the Personal Orientation Inventory and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory. Univariate analyses indicate that the present set of measures are related to A-B status for females, but not for males. For female medical students it appears that scoring as an A is associated with anxiety proneness, low self-esteem, constriction and introversion, rigidity, dependence, and guilt feelings. Implications of the present results and recommendations for future research with the A-B dimension are discussed.
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis; D001290:Attitude; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D013337:Students, Medical