These factors characterize students as conservative and respectful of established norms and ideas, able to tolerate routine and difficult work, but nevertheless possessing little self-control and willpower. DDS students must possess certain indispensable characteristics for their future professional development, bearing in mind that their work will mainly deal with people. Within these characteristics, the present study revealed that students were sociable, and suitably related to people. They trusted people appropriately, were neither docile nor dominant, and were self-sufficient enough so as to make personal decisions, but not to the point of not accepting advice or observations.
Los estudiantes de la carrera de Cirujano Dentista necesitan poseer determinadas características indispensables para su futuro desarrollo profesional, ya que su trabajo es prioritariamente con personas; dentro de ellas, en el estudio realizado se encontró que son sociables y se relacionan de manera adecuada con las personas, confiando en ellas de manera aceptable, no siendo dóciles pero tampoco dominantes, y siendo lo necesariamente autosuficientes como para tomar decisiones propias, aunque no a tal grado de no aceptar un consejo u observación; asimismo, poseen la inteligencia requerida para terminar con éxito sus estudios.