Interns and residents have been showing signs of burnout as a result of highly stressful environmental and personal factors. Some individuals react positively to these stressful factors and literature suggests that resilience and personality characteristics can explain this sort of phenomenon. One can assume that resilience is multifactorial and multidimensional, such as in the resilience approach. OBJECTIVE: To investigate how resilience can be associated with personality characteristics that correlate in a positive way to low burnout scores. METHOD: A study sample of 121 hospital interns was surveyed using a social demographic form, a Factorial Personality Inventory (IFP), the Young & Wagnilg Resilience Scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). RESULTS: Burnout was observed in domains of depersonalization in T1 (12.1) and T2 (12.9) (p = 0.004); emotional exhaustion in T1 (26) and T2 (22.5) (p = 0.624) and low professional accomplishment in T1 (38.1) and T2 (35.5) (p = 0.001); strong resilience results were seen in 63.6% of the study sample. Those with strong resilience displayed less burnout. It was possible to correlate personality characteristics and resilience. Finally, it was found that resilience can be developed in interns as a form of protection against burnout. CONCLUSION: The verification of low burnout scores in this study was correlated positively to resilience and personality characteristics.
Psychological Resilience; Burnout, Professional; Personality; Medical Residency
