AUTOCONCEPTO EN UNA MUESTRA DE ESTUDIANTES UNIVERSITARIOS DE PREGRADO EN MEDICINA DE LA CIUDAD DE MANIZALES (COLOMBIA), 2013.

Objective: the present research aimed at characterizing the dimensions of academic, labor, social, emotional, family and physical self-concept from a sample of students from two Medicine programs of the city of Manizales. Materials and Methods: the study is transversal analytical observational, where mean scores gotten by the students in the scale AF5 were compared according to genre and level of formation. We requested the volunteer participation of students of the Medicine programs from Universidad de Manizales and Universidad de Caldas registered in the first and last semesters. We used the questionnaire for Self-concept Form 5 (AF5); the hypotheses to work were two: Students are not significantly different in all dimensions of self-concept evaluated, according to their level of training, and students are not significantly different in all dimensions of self-concept evaluated, according to their genres. Results: we did not observe significant differences when we compared the means of the different domains of the self-concepts for the same semester; but we did find out that the students of both genres who are in the last semesters have averages that are statistically higher those of the students who are in the first semester, in the labor and academic self-concept. Conclusions: the research showed the need to standardize the questionnaire for Self-concept Form 5 (AF5), in the Colombian university students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]