Identificación del estrés en docentes de dos instituciones públicas al sur de la ciudad de Quito durante la pandemia del COVID-19 en el año 2021 - 2022

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Abstract: The purpose of this research was to identify stress factors in Ecuadorian teachers belonging to public institutions in the south of the Quito city during the covid-19 pandemic. A quantitative, non-experimental, transversal, descriptive methodology was used with a sample of 45 teachers. The tools used were: socio-demographic and Ad-hoc labor questionnaire, Maslach's chronic work stress inventory, the techno-stress questionnaire, depression, anxiety and stress scales (DASS-21), and the multidimensional scale of evaluation of confrontation styles (BRIEF-COPE-28). The most relevant results of the investigation in relation to the dimensions of the burnout were that in the dimension of emotional fatigue, a high score was observed with 35.6% followed by depersonalization with 20.0% and finally low personal performance with 15.6%, regarding to technostress, the scales that presented high assessments were fatigue and inefficiency, in mental health anxiety was the one who predominated in severe level and according to the confrontation strategies it was found that the most used strategies were the strategies focused on the problem. Therefore, it is concluded that, the burnout in teachers is due to the constant stress they are subjected to and is related to teleworking, the activities of their profession, theirwork environment and the demand that this implies.