Propiedades psicométricas en el cuestionario de 16 factores de personalidad de Cattell (16PF) en estudiantes de medicina y médicos con más de 15 años de ejercicio profesional.

Abstract

General Objective Define the psychometric characteristics of the medical students of the UCSG and determine their possible risk groups with a tendency to psychological disorders Method Two hundred and fifty medical students enrolled between 2012 and 2018 at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil completed the 16 Personality Questionnaire (16PF). The differences in responses to the 16PF between the two generations were developed through the SPSS program and analyzed through the Pearson correlation. Results The analyzes showed significant differences for Generation X versus Millennials in 4 of the 16 personality factors. The students of the millennium obtained significantly higher scores than the students of the Generation X in factors Sensitivity, Surveillance, Privacy, Apprehension, Openness to change and Tension, also giving a type of high response in Acquiescence; Generation X participants scored higher than Millennials in Affability, Stability, Attention to norms, Sensitivity, Privacy, Apprehension, Self-sufficiency, Perfectionism and Tension. All these differences are percentage significant. Conclusion Regarding the answers obtained, the characters that predominated in the generation of the Millennium, Sensitivity, Surveillance, Privacy, Apprehension, Openness to change and Tension, as well as their response style, Acquiescence, are inculcated in them by the influences of the environment cultural in which they were born and that predominated even over their personal beliefs and the customs of their native place.