Identificación del estrés en docentes ecuatorianos de educación básica y bachillerato durante la pandemia COVID-19.

Abstract

Abstract: The whole world faced an abnormal situation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, being the teaching sector one of the most affected. This research seeks to identify the factors related to stress in teachers of public institutions, belonging to the Sangolqui and Iñaquito sectors of the city of Quito during the year 2021. For this, the research uses a quantitative approach with exploratory, non-experimental and cross-sectional scope, for the analysis of the information the descriptive, analytical-synthetic, inductive deductive method was applied, stress-related surveys were applied to 48 teachers of basic education and high school, the instruments were the questionnaires: Ad-hoc Labor Sociodemographic, MBI-GS, technostress, DASS-21 and BRIEF-COPE/28. The results indicate that teachers present high levels of emotional exhaustion (35.4%), skepticism to the use of technology (31.30%), severe levels of anxiety (22.9%). Teachers use coping strategies focused on the problem. In conclusion, it can be indicated that teachers do not have a high prevalence of burnout syndrome, however, they have high levels of anxiety and skepticism.