Predictors for choosing the profession of physiotherapist. A longitudinal study 2011-2016

Elżbieta Trylińska-Tekielska, Monika Drewnik, Karolina Włostowska, Lidia Nowińska

E. Trylińska-Tekielska, M. Drewnik, K. Włostowska, L. Nowińska – Predictors for choosing the profession of physiotherapist. A longitudinal study 2011-2016. Fizjoterapia Polska 2020; 20(2); 58-68

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Introduction. The aim of this work was to examine the predisposition of the physiotherapist profession selection among the group of students in the College of Rehabilitation. Three variables were considered: personality, mental needs and recognized values.
Methods. The examined group included students of physiotherapy from Warsaw. 427 students have been tested. The research was carried out on groups during the Years 2011–2016 (to check the reproducibility of behaviour and repeatability of predictors).
Methods used to conduct the research:
1. Questionnaire of personality (R. Rohr)
2. Self-portrait Stein (by Choynowski) examining the psychological needs
3. Questionnaire values (M. Rokeach)
Results. Physiotherapy students exhibit a specific personality type (Guardian of Value), for whom the willingness to work and function in a group is extremely important. Group values ​​and group loyalty are also important. Physiotherapy students are also characterized by (Mediator) mediation skills, making contacts – which is very important in working with patients. Important needs governing their life choices are: the need to help, serve others and compensation, which favors ambitions, perseverance in performing tasks and their consistent implementation. For the surveyed students, individual goals are the most important. The values ​​through which they want to implement them are moral.
Conclusions. The research conducted among physiotherapy students in the years 2011–2016 on the factors contributing to professional career choices demonstrated a regular occurrence of Guardian of Value and Mediator personality type. Psychological needs such as the need to assist, to serve others and to compensate also played a major role. Types and hierarchies of values were repeated across the study groups.

Słowa kluczowe: physiotherapy, personality, mental needs, values, student

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