Burnout em professores universitários substitutos: Relações com confiança na organização, suporte social no trabalho e coping

Abstract

Located in Mental Health and Employment study Field, this research, with descriptive and transversal nature, aimed as main goal analyzed temporary teachers’ Mental Health through four dimension of Burnout Syndrome, identifying social support at work relation, Institution employee trust and Coping Mechanism. Took part of this research 100 temporary academic teachers, from a public university (a sample of 69%), who answered to following instruments: Teachers’ Burnout Syndrome evaluation questionnaire (CESQT-PE), Social Support of work scale (SSW), Institution Employee Trust scale (IET), Occupational Coping Scale (OCS) and Socialdemographic Questionare to describe a biographical and labor profile from the sample and identify the stressor in work. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics (average, standard deviation, frequency, percent), correlated(r Person) and inferential (test t, ANOVA, Multiple linear regression), using the Softwares Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and R statistics of analysis content using a Iramuteg software. The data recognized 10% of teachers with BS symptoms, being 8% labeled as profile 1 and 2% labeled as profile 2. In the regression analysis, two ECEO coefficients, ‘Organizational solidity’ and `Dismissal rules’ are predictors of BS and none EPSST coefficient could predict the syndrome. About the perceived laborals stressors, the content analysis of answers identified words as ‘student’ and ‘class’, suggesting that the absence of reciprocity in social relationships and organizational are the main source of psychic wear of sample. To deal with stressors, Copping Control Mechanism was the most used strategy and the only predictor of Illusion for work. This result suggest that temporary teachers face laboral issues using resolutive strategies and maybe it occurs by the condition of temporary employ, that demands achieve goals being productive and, still keeping an employable profile to get a new job in the mart. On the whole, the study aims to necessecity to new researches that compare regular teacher and temporary teachers in the same institution, or teachers put in different university contexts. In addition, this study suggests to the university to develop Burnout Syndrome preventive actions, encouraging the development of mutual and healthy relationships, looking at the three relation levels issued by the temporaries: with users (students), with the partners (coworkers) and with Institution they labor.