The Relationship between Results of the KT Personality Test and Students' Attitude to PBL Tutorials

Purpose: We investigated the relationship between students' personality and their attitudes to problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials. Subjects: The subjects were 55 third-year students of a university physical therapy department. Methods: After conducting PBL, we assessed students personality using the KT personality test, and conducted a survey of student attitudes to PBL. Results: The degrees of the five traits ranged from 7.85~11.71. There were no significant differences in attitudes to PBL among the principal traits. The relationship of each type of tendency with attitudes to PBL were: clinical thinking showed a significant positive correlation with convinced belief type and a negative correlation with delicate type and cooperativeness showed a significant positive correlation with self release type. Conclusion: Our results suggest that one factor related to attitudes to PBL is the degrees of personality.