Níveis de estresse ocupacional na docência: um estudo com professores em uma escola privada de Fortaleza

Abstract

Nowadays humans live in a postmodern society where daily situations create a kind of pressure that is sometimes greater than their capacity to support, whichusually demands them a certain effort to adapt. Occupational stress in organizations has been the cause of sickness of professionals resulting in digression and a decrease in productivity, often as a consequence of this environment of pressure for results and extreme physical and emotional demands. Teaching represents one of the most essential professions of life in society, and its importance is crucial for social, political, economic and cultural transformations.Teachers are faced with occupational stress routinely due to the nature of the profession itself. This work aims to identify the level of stress of teachers in a private school. The work is classified as a quantitative and descriptive research in which a census was carried out with all of the teachers of a private school in Fortaleza through an adapted Lipp Stress Symptom Inventory (LSSI). Afteranalyzing the data, it could be observed that the teachers of that school are under a certain level of stress, being in the phases of resistance and exhaustion, according to LSSI.