Docência no ensino superior em um contexto pandêmico: um estudo sobre qualidade de vida no trabalho de professores da Universidade Estadual do Maranhão

Abstract

The contemporary working world has been changing, and so has the quality of life at work, which is necessary and complex, is required to foster professors’ health and well-being, since they have been exposed to a variety of paper working as well as teaching students. This study wants to solve two research problems: what is the professor’ perception of quality of life at Estate University of Maranhão? What is the reflection of COVID-19 pandemic on professors’ working organization? The general objective is to analyse the professors’ perception of quality of life at Estate University of Maranhão and the specific objectives that derive from it are: investigate the professor’s work conditions during the pandemic; describe factors related to the professor’s working that impact their quality of life; and measure the professors’ index of quality of life. The method used was quantitative, which is also characterized by exploratory, descriptive, bibliographic and case study. This study was approved by the Ethics in Research Committee (CAAE: 48922921.6.0000.5086). In order to collect the data, it used WHOQOL – Bref questionnaire and created another survey related to working conditions domain and factors that have been affecting professors’ quality of life during the pandemic, in the period from November to December of 2021, reaching out 163 professors. The data tabulation was done by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software using mean,

standard deviation, sum, comparison and factor analysis. The analysis showed that the COVID- 19 has significantly changed professors’ working organization, requiring some adjustments in

their houses in order to teach remotely. Additionally, the results pointed out that professors are not satisfied with noise level and temparature. Regards to Quality of Life, the Physical health domain obtained 59,88; Phychological got 63,04; Environment took 64,99; and Social relationships got 65,39. In addition, the most impacting factor on professors’ QV during the pandemic was heavy workload. It concluded that professors’ perception of quality of life during the pandemic was negatively impacted on all WHOQOL domains and professors’ house are not adequate to perform as a teacher.