Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of mental health and psychosocial factors of mexican university academics.
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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_ais/accionesinvestigsoc.2024459582Keywords:
Teleworking, Mental Health, Psychosocial FactorsAbstract
The changes in working conditions generated during the Covid-19 pandemic in Mexican university workers could affect their physical, mental and psychological health, due to uncertainty and latent risk. For this reason, this work analyzes Positive Mental Health and identifies the Psychosocial Factors presented by University Academic workers from the Faculties of Human Communication and the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of a Mexican Public University. The study design was exploratory, quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional, through a self-reported online survey. Snowball sampling was carried out during 2020, among academics who were teleworking due to confinement. The results at the levels of the FTP Pienso A.C. psychosocial factors scale. and positive mental health were analyzed by gender. The male gender had higher scores in the leadership, institutional support, social relations and discomfort subscales, and the female gender had higher scores in the work content subscales. The differences being significant in the institutional support and discomfort subscales. The female gender presented higher scores in the cognitive, spiritual, socio-affective and behavioral dimensions. The differences being significant in the Cognitive subscale. The male gender presented worse scores than the female gender on the psychosocial factors scale and the female gender presented better positive mental health. The differences could be due to a worse adaptation of the male gender to teleworking, not previously done, and the previous experience of women in adapting to situations of multitasking and overload.
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