Prevalencia de la salud mental, capital psicológico y satisfacción laboral en trabajadores ecuatorianos

Abstract

Abstract: Mental health is a fundamental aspect that is acquiring great importance in society, since it affects both personal wellbeing and professional performance. The objective of the study was to determine the prevalence of mental health, psychological capital and job satisfaction in workers of private and public companies in the city of Cuenca; where a non-probabilistic accidental sampling was applied to 56 people; with a quantitative, transversal, non-experimental, descriptive approach. For the collection of information we used: the Ad Hoc sociodemographic and labor questionnaire, the depression, anxiety and stress scales (DASS-21), the psychological and labor capital tests. The results of the arithmetic means obtained were: in mental health, absence of depression 96%, absence of anxiety 93%, absence of stress 93%; in psychological capital, efficacy 29, 80; hope 31,25; resilience 29, 61; optimism 32, 80; and finally in intrinsic and extrinsic satisfaction 35.98 and 41.20 respectively. It is concluded that the majority of workers indicate that they have good mental health, psychological capital and job satisfaction.