Um olhar para as circunstâncias do trabalho docente geradoras de fragilidade

Abstract

Work is fundamental in people's lives and many work activities can cause stress. The stress that teachers experience in the classroom reflects on physical and mental health. In this sense, the present research sought to investigate how the working conditions indicate mental exhaustion in the professional category of teachers in the city of Parnaíba, State of Piauí. The study was composed of 22 primary and secondary school teachers, all of them over 18 years of age. Participants are between 24 and 50 years of age, most of them female. The instrument used was the Occupational Stress Vulnerability Scale (EVENT), the analysis of the results was performed according to the indications of Sisto, Baptista, Noronha and Santos (2007). The overall Stress scores of the interviewed teachers scored as Lower (13), Middle Lower (3), Middle (1) and Upper Middle (5). The results demonstrate that the professionals obtained low scores on indicators of vulnerability to stress.