Job stress and general health among university teachers in the Moroccan context

• Authors: Elmossati Mohamed Salim , Ahami Ahmed Omar Touhami , Hassan Oudda

Abstracts

EN

The present study was conducted to investigate occupational stress and general health among university professors, stress is measured by the Walter Gmelch Index (FSI), while general health was screened by the D. Goldberg GHQ-28 test. A collection of qualitative and quantitative data was carried out under the assumption that the stress at work perceived by the person correlates with his general health result. One hundred and twenty-five students (101 men, 20 women; aged 29-62) took part in this study with a kit that includes the two indices (FSI and GHQ-28) and a set of sociodemographic variables. The results revealed that a large part of the participants suffering from chronic stress and almost half of the subjects (48.76%) suffering from psychic disorders or somatization. The study also affirms our starting hypothesis on a significant correlation between the general state of health and the state of perceived stress. Statistical analysis also reveals a correlation between GHQ and certain institutional variables (grade and seniority at work). This study expresses the importance of a psychological first aid kit available to health professionals which makes it possible to estimate the prevalence of psychological distress in a given population and to detect psychosomatic cases which escape the general practitioner.

Keywords

EN

general health; work stress; job strain; psychological disorders; university teachers

• Publisher: Fundacja Edukacji Medycznej, Promocji Zdrowia, Sztuki i Kultury Ars Medica
• Journal: Acta Neuropsychologica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 21(1)
• Pages: 65-77

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Elmossati Mohamed Salim

• Laboratory of Cognitive-Behavioral Neurosciences and Applied Nutrition, Clinical Neuropsychology Team, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco
• Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Kenitra. Morocco

author

Ahami Ahmed Omar Touhami

• Laboratory of Cognitive-Behavioral Neurosciences and Applied Nutrition, Clinical Neuropsychology Team, Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco

author

Hassan Oudda

• Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Kenitra. Morocco

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0028.3546

Biblioteka Nauki

28763486