“Self-Concept” in Familiar Medicine Residents: a participating educative intervention

Abstract

Introduction: self-concept is a mental structure of a psychosocial character and it is associated to personality. It is built based on experience, and made of three elements; physical, behavioral and affective. Objective: Analyze self-concept in Family Medicine residents (FM) after and educative, active and participative intervention. Material and methods: in a pre-design of a post-test, an educative strategy was applied to 20 first-grade FM residents during 14 sessions, each one of two hours. The self-concept was measured in five dimensions by using a differential semantic scale. Results: the age average of the study group was 27.2 years +/- 2.9, with an interval of 24 and 38 years. In the Normative Social (NS) dimension the prevailed characteristics were kindness, honesty, loyalty, respectful, and hardworking. In the Social Expressive dimension (SE) the prevailed characteristic was sincerity. In the Expressive Affective (EA): sentimental, meticulous, loving and romantic. In the Intellectual (I): hard-working and organized. In the Rebel (R) prevailed anger, naughty and changeable. Conclusions: the educative intervention did not show significant group changes in the self-concept development, but when comparing genders there were some changes in the dimensions and characteristics, it was more evident for women than for men.