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

Abstract

Abstract: Public workers' knowledge about mental health, psychological capital, and job satisfaction is limited. The lack of exploration in this field underlines the need to address it as an object of research; whose general objective is: To determine the prevalence of mental health, psychological capital and job satisfaction in Ecuadorian workers in the public sector of the Cariamanga Canton in Loja - Ecuador; 47 public sector professionals were evaluated, with a quantitative approach, non-experimental research type, cross-sectional and descriptive design with non-probabilistic sampling. Among the instruments we have an Ad Hoc sociodemographic work questionnaire, depression, anxiety, and stress scales (DASS-21), and the psychological capital tool. The results obtained reveal a low percentage of anxiety, depression, and stress; about psychological capital, it is observed that some workers handle work challenges better than others; On the other hand, in their job satisfaction, they demonstrate that there is an extrinsic satisfaction greater than the intrinsic one.