Abstract

RAMON SUAREZ, Gustavo; ZAPATA VIDALES, Santiago  and  CARDONA-ARIAS, Jaiberth. Occupational stress and physical activity in employees. Divers.: Perspect. Psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.10, n.1, pp.131-141. ISSN 1794-9998.

Physical activity is a protective factor for occupational stress. The objective in this study was to analyze the relationship between physical activity and occupational stress among universities employees of Medellin, through a relational study with 120 ramdomly selected employees. We used the International Physical Activity Questionnaire and the Maslach-Jackson test. Frequency, chi-square, confidence intervals for the mean difference and Spearman correlation were used for the analyses. Findings include sedentarism in 71% of the sample, high emotional exhaustion in 29%, depersonalization in 38% and low personal accomplishment in 91%. An inverse correlation was found between physical activity and emotional exhaustion, and positive for depersonalization with emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment. With these results we concluded that physical inactivity and occupational stress have a high prevalence; physical activity has a protective effect on occupational stress.

Keywords : Motor activity; burnout; professional; depersonalization; occupational health services; young adult.

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