Personality

Perspective-taking

Big Five personality traits

Clinical psychology

Psychiatry

Psychology

Economics

Specialty

Microeconomics

Interpersonal Reactivity Index

Empathy

Personal distress

Preference

Neuroticism

Social psychology

Openness to experience

BMC Medical Education

Given the influence that personality can have on empathy, this study explores the relationship between empathy and personality, using three different measures of empathy, and taking into account gender and specialty preference.

Empathy and big five personality model in medical students and its relationship to gender and specialty preference: a cross-sectional study