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Ambiguity tolerance in students entering medical school (SHIRAZ-2006)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

A. Firoozabadi  and
M.J. Bahredar
A. Firoozabadi
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz
M.J. Bahredar
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Tehran Psychiatry, Psychiatry Research Center, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

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Introduction

The ability to tolerate uncertainty or ambiguity was first identified as a stable personality variable by Budner (1962) who defined it as an individual's propensity to view ambiguous situation as either threatening or desirable.

Objectives

We tried to measure ambiguity tolerance of medical students and compare the scale according to age, major and medical speciality preference.

Method

By a questionnaire designed by Budner(Budner Ambiguity Scale), we measured the ambiguity tolerance of 240students entering medical school.

Results

Analysis of data showed significant difference between men and women (60.81, 63.24). We found no difference of ambiguity tolerance according to the other variables. Conclusion: These data show the higher degree of ambiguity intolerance among Iranian students compared to the levels reported by Budner (44–48). Proper education could lead to better understanding of own potentiality in the students. Ambiguity tolerance may be an important variable to assess and train so that students are better prepared for unstructured situations that promote thinking and parallel the complexities of the applied world.

Type
P02-419
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 26 , Issue S2: Abstracts of the 19th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2011 , pp. 1015
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2011
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