Relações entre trabalho, qualidade de vida e saúde dos docentes.

Abstract

The health of teachers has been more and more studied on account of the increasing demands of the working world overburden these professionals. The objective of this research is to investigate how teachers of a school in the city of Rio Pardo-RS perceive their quality of life and what factors they believe influence this. We also analyzed which thoughts teachers have in relation to their work environment, life quality and the influence of this on their health. In this context, we seek more information in order to understand the scenario of teaching practices who have been working for more than 10 year in this field. Nine teachers participated in this investigative, qualitative and quantitative study. The study used the phenomenological analysis of the data with semi-open interviews and the Bardin (1977) analysis of content based on the fundamentals of Cognitive Therapies and Sciences. The study also used the application of two instruments: Lipp's inventory of symptoms of stress for adults (ISSL) and WHO Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) that evaluates life quality. The results showed that the sample quality of life was average in the range of 68-69%, which is a significant percentage, considering that the data was obtained in a singular way and within the perceptions of each person interviewed, along with it, this sample showed how teachers use resources to address and face daily stress. Regarding stress, three out of nine participants showed no stress, and six had stress with the presence of physical and psychological symptoms, which are in the resistant stage of stress, for instance, when they still try to deal with the issues that somehow unbalances them.