Introduction

Mental health is a complex phenomenon determined by multiple social, environmental, biological and psychological factors, and includes conditions such as depression, anxiety, epilepsy, dementia, schizophrenia, and developmental disorders in childhood, some of which have worsened in recent times.

Objective

To identify the relationship between the personality type and the level of anxiety in residents of the specialties in family medicine (FM) and in traumatology and orthopedics (TO)

Method

An observational study is carried out in resident physicians of the traumatology and orthopedics and family medicine specialties. The 16PF5 test is applied to assess the five dimensions of personality and the Hamilton anxiety test

Results

A sample of 116 residents was obtained. 29.4% of MF presented lower anxiety, while TO was observed in 70.5%. Greater anxiety was presented by 60.7% of MF, and 39.2% of TO. Regarding the analysis of the five global dimensions of personality (16PF5 test), the extraversion results were concentrated in the negative pole. In the anxiety dimension, the results were different for both specialties. In the hardness dimension, the majority is concentrated in the negative extreme. In the self-control and individuality dimensions, similar results were found between both specialties

Conclusions

There are certain similarities in the type of personality in both specialties and but with clear differences in the level of anxiety with a tendency to some type of anxiety in TyO residents, while the majority of MF residents do not present anxiety.