The Relationship between Learning Styles and Career Decision-Making Self-Efficacy among Medicine and Dentistry Students of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences

Table 1

Association between learning styles and demographic and academic variables of the study participants.

	Assimilating	Converging	Accommodating	Diverging	Total	F/X^2	value
Self appraisal	13.38 ± 5.12	13.41 ± 3.63	13.02 ± 3.83	11.39 ± 3.68	13.09 ± 4.28	1.76	0.155
Occupational information	12.69 ± 3.39	12.57 ± 3.70	11.57 ± 3.68	10.96 ± 3.62	12.26 ± 3.61	2.24	0.083
Goal selection	12.80 ± 3.06	12.93 ± 3.24	12.40 ± 3.40	11.07 ± 3.80	12.57 ± 3.31	2.46	0.064
Planning	12.54 ± 3.42	12.21 ± 4.07	11.28 ± 3.79	11.50 ± 3.42	12.10 ± 3.73	1.20	0.308
Problem solving	12.54 ± 3.41	12.18 ± 3.74	10.80 ± 4.36	10.89 ± 4.09	11.93 ± 3.81	2.58	0.054
CDMSE	63.96 ± 15.55	63.32 ± 16.60	59.08 ± 17.62	55.82 ± 17.11	61.96 ± 16.60	2.24	0.084
Age	26.17 ± 1.33	25.89 ± 1.38	25.88 ± 1.15	25.53 ± 1.03	25.94 ± 1.30	1.83	0.142
GPA	16.23 ± 1.08	16.07 ± 1.00	16.28 ± 1.10	16.43 ± 1.13	16.20 ± 1.06	0.94	0.420
Gender
Man	42 (38.2%)	40 (36.4%)	18 (16.4%)	10 (9.1%)	110 (100%)	2.31	0.509
Woman	39 (33.6%)	42 (36.2%)	17 (14.7%)	18 (15.5%)	116 (100%)
Study field
Dental	54 (40.3%)	38 (28.4%)	22 (16.4%)	20 (14.9%)	134 (100%)	9.41	0.024
Medical	27 (29.3%)	44 (47.8%)	13 (14.1%)	8 (8.7%)	92 (100%)
Native status
Native	53 (37.3%)	50 (35.2%)	21 (14.8%)	18 (12.7%)	142 (100%)	0.501	0.919
Nonnative	28 (33.3%)	32 (38.1%)	14 (16.7%)	10 (11.9%)	84 (100%)
Total	81 (35.8%)	82 (36.3%)	35 (15.5%)	28 (12.4%)	226 (100%)

One-way ANOVA. Chi-square.