Resilience and work stress in first school teachers of the Dr. Odilón Gomez Andrade

Abstract

Teachers feel more and more stress due to the great transformations and changes resulting from advances in society and the demands to achieve quality education, therefore, it is necessary for them to optimize their levels of resilience as a mechanism to adapt to a globalized world with great educational expectations. The above constitutes the motivation of the present article whose objective is "To establish the levels of resilience and work stress in the teachers of the first year of high school of the Educational Unit Dr. "Odilón Gómez Andrade". For this purpose, descriptive cross-sectional non-experimental quantitative research was used. The population and sample consisted of 20 first-year high school teachers from the Dr. Odilón Gómez Andrade Educational Unit. The CD-RISC Resilience Scale of Connor - Davidson (2003) and the ED-6 Teacher Stress Scale (Gutiérrez, Morán, & Sanz, 2005) were used in the data collection. After reviewing the data produced by the instruments, it was concluded that the majority of teachers were located at a Moderate Resilience Level and a Low Stress Level.