Relación entre salud mental y las estrategias de afrontamiento en docentes de educación básica en tiempos de COVID-19

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Abstract: This paper addresses how in times of confinement the mental health of teachers was affected by several factors generated by the Covid-19; such as restrictions by governments, the closure of institutions, the new modality of teleworking, increased workload, which in turn increased the levels of stress, anxiety. And depression, also to know how they implemented coping strategies to deal with these situations that generated distress or increased stress. The present research of a correlational type under a quantitative approach worked with a sample of 192 teachers, most of whom were women (54.5%) and men (45.5%), to whom the DASS-21 instrument was applied, obtaining as a result the levels of stress (76.8%), anxiety (64.4%) and depression (77.3%). The Brife Cope-28 questionnaire was used to determine the coping strategies that were most used, with the result that the highest-level present in the teachers during Covid-19 was depression, and the most used strategies were religion, self-distraction, planning and acceptance, showing moderate levels of use.