Examination of the Personality Characteristics of Pharmacists in the Framework of Five Factor Model and the Construction of Their Professional Profiles

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine descriptive personality profiles of pharmacists by Five Factor Personality Model in the context of a model study. Pharmacists as a professional group is chosen for this study in accordance with the report and classification of International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO) of International Labor Office (ILO) and the reason for selection of this occupation mostly is the easy access and easy test application. The participants of the study were a total of 181 pharmacist, 106 women (58.6 %) and 75 men (41.4 %), between the ages of 25-79 (mean=41.02±12.28). The normative group consisted of a total of 5467 people, 2628 women (48.07%) and 2839 men (51.93 %), between the ages of 25-87 years (mean=36.82±10.327). The findings revealed that women pharmacists were more loner, tolerant, moderate, agreeable, altruist, orderly, compliant with the rules, conscientious, deliberate, provident, emotionally stable, easygoing, self-confident, abstract thinking, sensitive, and open to newness than the normative group. While men pharmacists were more loner, assertive, tolerant, moderate, agreeable, altruist, orderly, compliant with the rules, conscientious, deliberate, provident, self-confident, abstract thinking and sensitive than the normative group. Pharmacists whether man or woman show characteristics such as conflict avoidance, sensitiveness, soft heartedness, agreeableness, calmness, trustfulness, and cooperativeness as a professional group.