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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

The ethical and psychological determinants of a doctor’s professional activity

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Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Yulia S Filatova
Dzerzhinsky ave., 6, block 45, Yaroslavl, 150045, Russia; y. ur.liam@avotalif.s

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Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved at a meeting of the local ethics committee of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Medical Education Yaroslavl State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (Protocol No. 67 dated 04/18/2024).

Received: 2026-02-18 Accepted: 2026-03-10 Published online: 2026-03-29
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Table 1. The association of general deontological competence of a doctor with communicative competence (r-Spearman rank correlation coefficient)
*p < 0.05
Table 2. The association of deontological competence of a doctor with metacognitive characteristics of the doctor’s personality (r-Spearman rank correlation coefficient)
*p<0.05 * *p<0.01 * * *p<0.001
Table 3. The association of deontological competence of a doctor with socio-psychological attitudes of a person in the sphere of motivation and needs (r-Spearman rank correlation coefficient)
*p<0.05 * *p<0.01 * * *p<0.001