RT Journal Article
T1 Healthcare students’ personality traits and competence-based learning methodologies
A1 López López, María Josefa
A1 Navarro Abal, Yolanda
A1 Climent Rodríguez, José Antonio
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
AB The European Higher Education Area was implemented more than a decade ago with the aim of improving internationally thecompetitiveness of European university education putting the spotlight on skills and competence development (and not only onknowledge acquisition). This work intends to analyze the impact of competence-based teaching methodologies on universitystudents, as well as to contribute to the study of the individual personality traits differences regarding this impact. For this, adescriptive, quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted with a non-randomised sample of university students. The samplewas composed of a total of 499 students of the University of Huelva (350 from the Health Sciences degree, and 149 form otherdegrees), who completed a questionnaire on professional skills and teaching methods developed ad hoc for this research, as well asthe brief version of the Spanish adaptation of the NEO Five-Factor Inventory. The results show that Health Sciences students feelmore satisfied with the most participative and active methodologies, and they consider these better contribute to their futureprofessional competence development. On the other hand, in relation to the big 5 personality traits studied, links have been foundbetween competence development perception and personal preferences and the dimensions of extraversion, agreeableness,conscientiousness and openness to experience. This last factor, openness to experience, appears when analyzing the maindifferences among both groups, being Health Sciences students more intellectually curious, showing more openness and diversity ofinterests, in addition to being more creative, innovative, and flexible.
PB Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
SN 0025-7974
SN 1536-5964 (electrónico)
YR 2020
FD 2020-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17955
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17955
LA eng
NO López López, M. J., Navarro Abal, Y., Climent Rodríguez, J. A., Gómez Salgado, J. (2020). Healthcare students’ personality traits and competence-based learning methodologies. Medicine, 99(17), e19812. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/md.0000000000019812
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026