ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO DEL SINDROME DE DESGASTE PROFESIONAL EN PROFESORES DEL INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE ORIZABA Y DE LA ESCUELA NACIONAL DE MEDICINA Y HOMEOPATÍA

Abstract

Frequently the economically active people are subjet under a daily labor stress, especially those that provide care services, this stress can cause a set of inadequate answers like emotional exhaustion and/or negative attitudes towards the people with whom the individual interacts in its job environment. When these symptoms become chronic appears the denominated burnout syndrome (SDP); which is characterized by three interrelated dimensions: emotional tiredness (AE), depersonalization disorder (DP) and lack of personal achievenement (FRP). The study of this syndrome in the field of teaching plays a very important role that individuals engaged in this profession are constantly subjected to a wide variety of stressors that create gaps in their quality of life, and even may affect the quality of education in the country. For that reason the main of this research was to establish differences and similarities of the SDP in teachers from two schools at the university level: Technological Institute of Orizaba (ITO) and National School of Medicine and Homeopathy ( ENMyH.) during the 2008 year. For the development of this work was selected at random a representative sample of 40 teachers who applied two tools: The "Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), in its Spanish validated version and a demographic test, which detect and determine the degree of SDP and identify the main variables or conditions that favor the development of this syndrome is important to mention that the surveys were answered anonymously and were collected to 100%. Based on the results, the overall diagnosis is considered like a low level of SDP however the teachers of the ITO are more vulnerable to suffer SDP that the E.N.M.yH. teachers, and that the variables that most affect the teachers of both institutions are: being married, education level and have a job base.