Riesgo psicosocial en docentes universitarios. Aportes para la actualización de un estado del arte inicial

Abstract

In the society different productive models exist and / or socioeconomic where a series has been demonstrated of problematic in the labor environments that concern the physical and labor health of the workers. In case of the university teachers, the presences of psychological negative factors can drive to the existence of diverse psychological disorders that not only affect the educational worker, but also it affects the performance of the same one, the quality of his work, the profitability and likewise the good development of the educational institution. The object of the present study is to identify the principal factors of psychological risk to which the university teachers are exposed by means of a documentary review of last years. The methodology of the investigation is of quantitative exploratory type; the technology uses documentary study for the search of the information of the different studies that have developed on risks psychologically that affect the university teachers in the development of his profession. The investigation I throw a few results revealing that the university teachers are exposed to different psychological risks being the principal one the syndrome of burnout and followed by chronic stress, emotional depletion, depersonalization, change of functions (mas administrative officers), between others. Which can generate cardiovascular pathologies, depression, anxiety, stress, multiplicity of tasks, overload of work, limitations of the time to expire with the academic activities, lack of recognition, mental load, inadequate working spaces, lack of a remuneration that compensates the efforts and falls relate social in the work. One concludes that the studies on the risks psychosocial educational university are very small, even having in it counts the great affectation that can generate these problems in the teachers already be in the labor part as also in his net personal part, the development of the institutions and likewise in the student population who also meet affected since it is stopped them offering a service of first.