Work engagement, satisfacción laboral, salud física y salud mental en académicos de una universidad pública argentina
Being an academic faculty member has become a highly stressful occupation, making it necessary to examine the relevance of psychological and organizational conditions associated with higher levels of physical and mental health in the university setting. We aimed, on the one hand, to measure the leve...
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Being an academic faculty member has become a highly stressful occupation, making it
necessary to examine the relevance of psychological and organizational conditions
associated with higher levels of physical and mental health in the university setting. We aimed, on the one hand, to measure the levels of work engagement, job satisfaction, physical health, and mental health in a sample of Argentinian scholars and, on the other hand, to analyze the influence of a set of demographics (i.e. age, gender, and level of
education), terms of employment (i.e. hierarchy, hours worked per week, and tenure), work
engagement, and job satisfaction on reported levels of physical and mental health. We administered an online survey that included six self-report scales to a sample of 86 academics from an Argentinian university. Over one third of participants reported feeling stressed out, tired, emotionally exhausted, experienced backaches, having sleep difficulties, headaches, eyestrain, and/or fatigue in the previous 30-day period. Results also revealed that those academics who were highly engaged or felt highly satisfied with their jobs tended to report better physical and mental health. Argentinian universities should improve their working conditions in order to boost their faculty members’work engagement and job satisfaction, as both phenomena appear to be vital for maintaining adequate levels of physical and mental health in the workplace.
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dialnet-ar-18-ART00012927582020-06-06Work engagement, satisfacción laboral, salud física y salud mental en académicos de una universidad pública argentinaPujol-Cols, Lucas J.Satisfacción en el trabajoSalud laboralEducación superiorProfesor universitarioJob satisfactionOccupational healthHigher educationProfessorBeing an academic faculty member has become a highly stressful occupation, making it necessary to examine the relevance of psychological and organizational conditions associated with higher levels of physical and mental health in the university setting. We aimed, on the one hand, to measure the levels of work engagement, job satisfaction, physical health, and mental health in a sample of Argentinian scholars and, on the other hand, to analyze the influence of a set of demographics (i.e. age, gender, and level of education), terms of employment (i.e. hierarchy, hours worked per week, and tenure), work engagement, and job satisfaction on reported levels of physical and mental health. We administered an online survey that included six self-report scales to a sample of 86 academics from an Argentinian university. Over one third of participants reported feeling stressed out, tired, emotionally exhausted, experienced backaches, having sleep difficulties, headaches, eyestrain, and/or fatigue in the previous 30-day period. Results also revealed that those academics who were highly engaged or felt highly satisfied with their jobs tended to report better physical and mental health. Argentinian universities should improve their working conditions in order to boost their faculty members’work engagement and job satisfaction, as both phenomena appear to be vital for maintaining adequate levels of physical and mental health in the workplace.La docencia universitaria se ha convertido en una de las ocupaciones más estresantes, lo que incrementa la relevancia de examinar las condiciones psicológicas y organizacionales que favorecen la conservación de la salud física y mental de los académicos. Este artículo se propone, por un lado, examinar el work engagement, la satisfacción laboral, la salud física y la salud mental en una muestra de académicos argentinos y, por el otro, analizar la influencia de un conjunto de variables sociodemográficas (i.e. edad, género y nivel educativo), otras relativas a las condiciones de empleo (i.e. jerarquía del cargo, dedicación horaria y estabilidad contractual), el work engagement y la satisfacción laboral de los participantes sobre sus niveles reportados de salud física y mental. Para ello, se administra un cuestionario virtual a una muestra no probabilística constituida por 86 académicos de una facultad de una universidad pública argentina. Los resultados revelan que más de un tercio de los participantes reportan haberse sentido estresados, cansados y/o agotados mentalmente, o haber padecido dolores de espalda, problemas de sueño, dolores de cabeza, tensión ocular y/o fatiga durante un período de treinta días. De esta investigación también surge que aquellos docentes más satisfechos con sus trabajos y/o más engaged tienden a gozar de una mejor salud física y mental. Se concluye que las universidades argentinas deberían mejorar las condiciones de trabajo que ofrecen a sus académicos con el propósito de incrementar su work engagement y su satisfacción laboral, dado que ambos factores son relevantes para la conservación de su salud física y mental.2018text (article)application/pdfhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6634224(Revista) ISSN 1315-0138Salud de los Trabajadores, ISSN 1315-0138, Vol. 26, Nº. 1, 2018, pags. 6-19spaLICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI
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