Inflated Ego and its Relationship to a Feeling of Inferiority Among Students of the Faculty of Medicine at Yarmouk University

Abstract

study aimed to reveal ego inflation, inferiority feeling level and relationship between them among medical students at Yarmouk University. study conducted on a sample (255) male, female students. Ego inflation Scale, Scale of Inferiority feeling were applied. results showed that the level of ego inflation among medical students was low, and there were statistically significant differences in dimension of selfishness depending on gender variable, in male’s interest. And there were no statistically significant differences in level of ego inflation for academic year variable, and level of inferiority feeling among medical students was low, there were no statistically significant differences in inferiority feeling due to sex variables and academic year. It was found that the sub-dimensions of ego inflation were associated with weak positive relationships with inferiority feeling and it was associated with a weak positive relationship with inferiority feeling.