Facial affect recognition and exit examination performance in medical students : a prospective exploratory study

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dc.contributor.authorRoos, Tessa C.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNiehaus, Dana J. H.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorLeppanen, Jukka M.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRas, Johanen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorCloete, Karen J.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorJordaan, Esmeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKoen, Liezlen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-07-24T06:59:53Z
dc.date.available2015-07-24T06:59:53Z
dc.date.issued2014-11
dc.date.updated2014-12-11T20:40:42Z
dc.descriptionCITATION: Roos, T.C. et al. 2014. Facial affect recognition and exit examination performance in medical students: a prospective exploratory study. BMC Medical Education, 14:245, doi:10.1186/s12909-014-0245-6.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/14/245en_ZA
dc.description.abstractBackground: Facial affect recognition (FAR) abilities underpin emotional intelligence (EI). The latter is suggested to predict academic success and to be important for clinician-patient interaction. It is therefore of interest to investigate the possible association between FAR and academic performance in undergraduate medical students. Methods We assessed the association between the ability to recognize emotions through facial expression and exit examination performance, a measure of clinical proficiency, in undergraduate medical students stratified by gender at a South African tertiary institution using a prospective descriptive design. Data on the perception of facial expressions and exit examination marks were obtained from 144 (61%) females and 93 (39%) males with a mean age of 24.1 ± 1.6 years. Facial affect recognition measures on the Hexagon and Animation tasks were individually correlated with academic performance indicators using Pearson correlation. Results The perceptual discrimination of anger was associated with improved performance in anaesthetics (r = .24; p = .004) and urology (r = .24; p = .001), while the recognition of happiness was associated with decreased performance in obstetrics (r = −.21, p = .002). Gender was an effect modifier in the relationship between perceptual discrimination of anger and urology performance (p = .03), with a strong positive relationship for males, but a non-significant relationship for females. Conclusion There was no overall correlation between FAR and overall academic performance or with gender. However, subject (specialty) specific findings with recognition of specific emotions and with gender as effect modifier poses interesting questions about EI and FAR and prompts further research into FAR as a useful tool. Being an objective test and offering a more focused assessment makes FAR worthy of further application.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublishers' versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent9 pages
dc.identifier.citationRoos, T.C. et al. 2014. Facial affect recognition and exit examination performance in medical students: a prospective exploratory study. BMC Medical Education, 14:245, doi:10.1186/s12909-014-0245-6.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1472-6920 (online)en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1186/s12909-014-0245-6en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97260
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherBioMed Centralen_ZA
dc.rights.holderTessa C Roos et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.en_ZA
dc.subjectEmotial intelligenceen_ZA
dc.subjectFace perceptionen_ZA
dc.subjectFacial expressionen_ZA
dc.subjectMedical students -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectAcademic achievement -- South Africaen_ZA
dc.titleFacial affect recognition and exit examination performance in medical students : a prospective exploratory studyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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