Working conditions and mental health in a brazilian university
| dc.creator | Livia de Oliveira Borges | |
| dc.creator | Georgina Maria Véras Motta | |
| dc.creator | Geraldo Majela Garcia Primo | |
| dc.creator | Sabrina Cavalcanti Barros | |
| dc.creator | Camila Teixeira Heleno | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-18T21:11:57Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-09T00:28:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-18T21:11:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-01-14 | |
| dc.format.mimetype | ||
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021536 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 16604601 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1843/76658 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | |
| dc.rights | Acesso Aberto | |
| dc.subject | Ambiente de trabalho | |
| dc.subject | Saúde mental | |
| dc.subject | Universidades e faculdades - Administração de pessoal | |
| dc.subject.other | Working conditions | |
| dc.subject.other | Precarious work | |
| dc.subject.other | Well-being | |
| dc.subject.other | Analysis of variance | |
| dc.subject.other | Social causation | |
| dc.title | Working conditions and mental health in a brazilian university | |
| dc.type | Artigo de periódico | |
| local.citation.epage | 19 | |
| local.citation.spage | 2 | |
| local.citation.volume | 20 | |
| local.description.resumo | The highest prevalence of mental illnesses and mental suffering in contemporary society has raised awareness of the theme and their connection to work. In Brazil, university servants (professors and technical-administrative staff) are a focused occupational group. We developed this research with the objective of exploring the relationship between the perception of working conditions and the mental health of these servants. Structured questionnaires were applied to 285 servants, 33.5% being professors and 66.5% technical-administrative staff. Regarding working conditions, the questionnaires included items that measured 15 primary factors and questions about their contracts and legal conditions. To evaluate mental health, the participants answered a questionnaire about common psychic symptoms, negative and positive affects, self-esteem, and family-work conflict. We composed groups of participants according to their mental health indicator scores (cluster analysis),and after that, we compared the mean scores in working conditions for the groups. Then, we found that the mean scores of 13 from the 15 working condition factors were significantly different between the mental health groups. Our results showed the importance of improving working conditions in universities to prevent mental illnesses. Understanding the content of each working condition factor presents potency to contribute to defining the priorities among different aspects of working conditions. | |
| local.publisher.country | Brasil | |
| local.publisher.department | FAF - DEPARTAMENTO DE PSICOLOGIA | |
| local.publisher.initials | UFMG | |
| local.url.externa | https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/2/1536 |