Prevalencia de la salud mental, capital psicológico y satisfacción laboral en docentes de educación básica y bachillerato de la zona céntrica de la ciudad de Puyo

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Abstract: This work focused on knowing and evaluating mental health, psychological capital and job satisfaction in education, specifically in an educational institution in the area downtown of the city of Puyo, Ecuador. Having a sample of 37 education teachers basic and high school, to which the following instruments were applied: Questionnaire Sociodemographic and labor Ad Hoc; Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21); the Job Satisfaction Scale (Warr et al., 1979); and Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ24) by Luthans et al., (2007). With a quantitative, non-experimental, transversal and descriptive. And as a result, it was evident that all the variables studied yielded figures standard and higher than the average mean, compared to other research, which which denotes a favorable psychological capacity in many of the aspects related to the performance and work environment of teachers.