Niveles de bienestar psicológico según características sociodemográficas en docentes de la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad de Cuenca, período de 2022-2023

Abstract

The psychological well-being is conceptualized as the development of capacities of people and their personal growth. It may vary according socio-demographic factors such as gender, age, socio-economic level and the partner’s status. The teaching implies a sum of liabilities, involves social abilities, academic background, since the interaction with learners is vital for the bidirectional performance between them. The teacher performance dimensions have a proportionally direct relation with the psychological well-being. This study aimed for describing the levels of the psychological well-being according the socio-demographic characteristics on teachers from Faculty of Jurisprudence of the University of Cuenca, in the period 2022-2023. The study follows a quantitative approach, with a non-experimental design, cross-sectional and a descriptive reach. Work was carried out with 32 professors from the Faculty of Jurisprudence. The instruments applied were the Ryff Scale of Psychological well-being, adapted to the Spanish by Diaz and collaborators. This scale assesses the levels of psychological well-being. The other instrument is a socio-demographic form developed by the author. The most relevant results, it was found that university teachers from Faculty of Jurisprudence have an appropriate level of psychological well-being, since the 80% of the population is placed between a high level and an elevated level of general psychological wellbeing. In terms of the variation of these socio-demographic characteristics, the male teachers, middle-aged adults, who do not have a permanent contract, who are married and have reached the fourth level of education, have higher levels of global psychological well-being.