Publicación:

Relación entre felicidad y estrés en el trabajo en una muestra de trabajadores

Resumen

This research whose objective is to find the relationship between happiness and work stress in a group of workers from the perspective of positive psychology and with specific objectives which are; identify the influence of work stress on happiness at work, contrast the theory of positive psychology with the variables of stress and happiness at work and describe the relationship between stress and happiness at work, this project is presented as an investigation that allows to know if there is a relationship between happiness and work stress in a sample of workers in the city of Santa Marta, for this, two questionnaires were implemented which were; the OIT-OMS work stress scale and the happiness scale of Lima, with a participation of 50 people where 52% were female and 48% male, having the following findings; In the OIT-OMS work stress scale it was possible to show that 68% of people do not suffer from stress and as for the Lima Happiness Scale a 52% high level of happiness was obtained, this means that if there is a relationship between work stress and happiness, in addition to this it is important to note that the 12% who did present a stress level, 10% were men and only 2% women, regarding the low level of happiness, 10% were female and 8% male, with this it is possible to make the correlation and that is that although the highest percentage of stress is present in the male sex, it presents a high level of happiness, as for the female gender, it does not present stress but a low level of happiness.