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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 4 Pearson correlation between personality traits and social desirability

From: Self-report personality tests and medical school selection

Personality traits

Baseline assessment

Follow-up assessment

Openness to experience

R (95CI %)

R (95CI %)

Conscientiousness

0.039 (−0.204, 0.278)

0.249 (−0.005, 0.473)

Extraversion

0.197 (−0.047, 0.419)

0.506 (0.289, 0.673)

Agreeableness

0.348 (0.115, 0.544)

0.284 (0.038, 0.497)

Neuroticism

0.320 (0.085, 0.522)

0.450 (0.229, 0.628)

Personality traits

−0.294 (−0.500, −0.056)

−0.617 (−0.744, −0.431)

  1. Italicized indicates that there were significant differences for the significant level of 0.005