title: [Compairing investigation of the stereotypes concerning doctors and psychotherapists].
abstract: In this study the stereotypes about psychotherapists and medical doctors were examined. 172 personality traits were selected and dimensions were created, that was grouped by three professions (engineers, physicians, psychotherapists). The research questionnaire contained 45 contrary personality dimensions, which was rated to the previous three professions. After the screening criteria, 101 persons were included in the statistical analysis. Analyses of the variance filtered out 20 of the 45 dimensions in which the professions did not differ and 25 profession-specific dimensions remained in the study. In these dimension, the doctors and the psychotherapists (with the exception of introversion-extroversion) were significantly different. Dimensional factor analysis was carried out by the dimensions of doctors and psychotherapists and it listed the dimensions to 3-3 factors. The first profile of the medical doctor released a picture of a doctor who has magical expectations of the patients, the second profile is distant, technocratic doctors, and the third is a pleasant human characteristics of medical images. The first factor of the psychotherapist is the humanistic therapist, the second profile is the cold, analytic therapist's image and the third is the image of a professional scientist. 2-2 factors are correlated, and the third ones in the trust / distrust towards the helpers are also connected. A hypothesis testing was carried out that people with own psychotherapy experiences and without own psychotherapeutic experience significantly differed: people with own psychotherapy experiences evaluated the psychotherapists significantly more imaginative, but in the other dimension there were no difference. Finally, we compared the assessments of the psychotherapists by men and women: women found them significantly more respectful, more scientific and more accurate workers, than the men did.
authors.affiliation: Debreceni Egyetem, Magatartastudomanyi Intezet, Debrecen, Hungary, E-mail: raffai.gellert@sph.unideb.hu.
authors.forename: Gellért
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Raffai
authors.forename: Antal
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bugán
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012737:Sex Factors; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior; D013240:Stereotyping; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires