ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Med.
Sec. Healthcare Professions Education
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1647460
Comparison of affective temperament, parental bonding, and intelligence between individuals who chose medical and non-medical professions
Provisionally accepted
- Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan
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Background: Professional choice is an important aspect of one's life and is associated with biopsychosocial and economic factors. Medical and co-medical professional choices may involve a noble intention to contribute to patients. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the association between medical and co-medical professional choices and affective temperament, parental bonding, and intelligence. Methods: The dataset included 130 individuals (19 with medical or co-medical professional choices and 111 without). Data on participants' demographics, intelligence levels, affective temperament, and parental bonding were collected and subsequently compared among the two groups using unpaired t-test and χ2 test. Thereafter, binomial logistic regression analysis using the likelihood ratio and forward method was performed, with medical or comedical professional choice as the dependent variable and potentially significant variables (p<0.2) in the above t-test or χ2 test as independent variables. Results: Only higher paternal care was significantly associated with medical and co-medical professional choices. Conclusions: Our study findings suggest that paternal care is associated with medical or comedical professional choices. Further prospective studies are required to determine causal relationships and investigate other factors related to such choices given the non-association of all other variables in the study.
Keywords: professional choice, medical doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Paternal care
Received: 16 Jun 2025; Accepted: 03 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hirakawa, Terao, Kohno, Sakai and Kawano. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Takeshi Terao, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University, Yufu, Japan
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