Identificación de los principales riesgos psicosociales a los que están expuestos los profesionales en la Zona 7 de Ecuador y su relación con la edad, durante el año 2019

Abstract

Abstract: The psychosocial risk are conditions that involve a workplace and they have a relation with the organization, tasks, job title and laboral enviroment, those risk are considered a threat to the health and to workers performance. Therefore, the aim was routed in the recognition of principals psychosocial risk and the relationship with the age, on an professional study in the Zone 7 in Ecuador; for that it was used a quantitative methodology, correlacional on a non-probabilistic research with 234 professionals working in the public sector. The instruments used were: Questionnairesocial-demographic Ad Hoc and the Copenhague Psychosocial Questionnaire (CoPsoQ-III)of the internacional network COPSOQ.The results obtained demonstrate that professionals are exposed to several psychosocial risk like: pace of work, emotional demands, laboral influence, social support with the work partners and the superiors, laboral unsafety and unsafety conditions in thework, laboral stress and Burnout. In what concerns to the relationship of those risks with age, it was found a negative correlation significative with stress.