Prevalencia de la Salud mental, Capital psicológico y Satisfacción laboral en docentes ecuatorianos de una Unidad educativa del cantón Jaramijó de la provincia de Manabí - Ecuador durante el año 2022

Abstract

Abstract: Teaching is the second professional category that reports the most occupational diseases. The objective of this research is to determine the prevalence of mental health, psychological capital and job satisfaction in Ecuadorian teachers of a Fiscal Educational Unit of the Jaramijó canton, Manabí province, in the year 2022, using a research methodology with a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional and descriptive approach, with a sample of 46 teachers; in which the instruments were applied: Ad Hoc Labor Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Psychological Capital. PCQ-24 and Job Satisfaction Scale, whose results show a 97.4% prevalence of stress and mild depression and 2.6% stress and moderate depression; 69.2% mild anxiety, 12.8% moderate anxiety and 17.9% severe anxiety; psychological capital of 37.44 hope, 35.69 resilience, 34.51 efficacy and 33.38 optimism; a job satisfaction of 39.77 intrinsic and 38.44 extrinsic. Therefore, it is concluded that there is a high prevalence of stress, anxiety and mild depression, low percentages of moderate and severe level of stress, anxiety and depression, high values of psychological capital in the dimension of hope and high values of job satisfaction in the intrinsic, these factors counteract the risks in teacher mental health.