Relación entre estrés laboral y resiliencia en docentes de la Carrera de Medicina y Cirugía en la Universidad de Cuenca-Azuay, período 2021

Abstract

Teachers constantly go through various changes and professional challenges that may trigger work-related stress. Faced with this, people make use of strategies or protective factors that allow them to cope with or reduce stress, one of them being resilience. The general objective of the study was to identify the relationship between work stress levels and resilience factors in teachers of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Cuenca, in the period 2021. In order to carry out this study, a quantitative approach, non-experimental design, cross-sectional and exploratorycorrelational scope was used to carry out this study. We worked with 51 teachers, 17 women and 34 men. For data collection, a sociodemographic form, the Work Stress Questionnaire and the Wagnild and Young Resilience Scale were used to evaluate the degree of resilience. The results of the research showed that there is a significant inverse relationship between work stress and resilience in teachers; in relation to the sociodemographic variables, it was demonstrated that there are medium levels of work stress, with the exception of divorced people, teachers with more experience and those who do not have an extra academic occupation; finally, the resilience factor slightly more used by teachers was Factor I: Personal competence, that is, that teachers possess resilient characteristics, such as: independence, confidence, ingenuity and perseverance. It is concluded that university teachers presented high resilience and lower work stress, demonstrating the correlation between these variables