DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMATOLOGY IN TEACHERS AND THEIR POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES ON QUALITY OF LIFE

• Autor(a) principal: Arantes, Aline Evelin da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Lopes, Sandra Ribeiro de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Psicologia e Saúde em Debate
• Texto Completo: https://psicodebate.dpgpsifpm.com.br/index.php/periodico/article/view/V5N2A2
• topic: depressão; qualidade de vida; docentes; Depression; Teachers; Quality of life

Psychic suffering at work has been pointed by scholars as a variable that can influence illness. The teaching career, considered one of the most populous professional categories in the country, has peculiar characteristics and work processes, which if added to subjective and emotional factors, can be related to the emergence of several psychopathological symptoms, such as those that configure the work. depressive condition. Similarly, the labor factors that make up the teacher's universe of work may be linked to his perception of quality of life. The objective of this research was to investigate the possible relationships between the incidence of depressive symptoms and impacts on the quality of life of teachers in the city of São Paulo. This is a descriptive study with a quantitative and qualitative approach conducted with 41 teachers from the following levels of education: kindergarten, elementary, middle and higher. The following instruments were used: Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Beck Inventory and the World Health Organization Quality of Live - Bref. The results showed a higher prevalence of depressive symptoms in female teachers and lower quality of life levels than male in all domains of life evaluated. It was also evidenced that the following variables: female gender, working at the kindergarten level (preschool), have between 6 and 10 years of experience in the profession, age between 20 and 29 years, have a workload of 30 hours per week and acting exclusively as a teacher operate as risk factors for the illness of the teaching category.