Transactional Styles of Medical Students: A Single-centered Descriptive Study

when interactions shift from adult-to-adult to parent-to-child or child-to-parent. 6This theory is applicable in any domain requiring an understanding of individuals, relationships, and communication.Consequently, TA is employed in educational contexts as it assists educators and students in maintaining clear communication and preventing unproductive conflicts. IntroductIonBerne 1,2 formulated transactional analysis (TA) by observing interpersonal interactions and claimed that TA serves as a significant psychoanalytic tool that examines the communication exchanges between individuals.It focuses on personality and shares many similarities with Freud's concepts of psychoanalysis. 3TA explores "the dynamics of how individuals interact with one another, specifically, is the ego state in me is communicating with which ego state in you". 4In this framework, a person may embody the child (C), adult (A), or parent (P) ego states during an interaction, and an individual's life position in transition reflects how they engage with others and their behaviors. 5Transaction as a "communicative act or interaction between two parties," characterized as an "exchange of strokes (a unit of human recognition)". 1 Berne 1 described various types by stating that "communication transactions consist of a stimulus and a response" and categorized them as complementary, crossed, or ulterior.Vocal tone and physical gestures play a significant role in every message transaction, alongside spoken words.In each transaction, both the stimulus and response can be verbal or nonverbal and evolve based on four fundamental life positions, referred to as OK or Not OK. 5 This communication can either flow smoothly or become tangled, confusing, and unsatisfactory.Reflecting this nature, Solomon (2003) classified transactions into two categories: nomology straight transactions and crossed transactions. 4Communication flows easily when transactions are complementary, but issues arise 1,