Sources of Job Stress and General Health of Federal Legal Actors in a Municipality on Mexico's Northern Border
Work stress is an important phenomenon in federal professional legal actors due to the constant confrontation with the labor demands of the judiciary and demands perceived as excessive or uncontrollable with overload of work, failure to meet strict deadlines, exposure to verbal violence and high complexity in the resolution of cases. Legal actors who present significant levels of work related stress promote reactions and responses associated with general health such as anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, emotional exhaustion, insomnia, decreased satisfaction and inadequate professional performance, even with symptoms of Burnout syndrome. The objective of the study was to analyze the relation of sources of work-related stress on the overall health of federal legal actors in a border city in northern Mexico. A quantitative methodology was used with an empirical-analytical positivist approach with a non-experimental predictive design of cross sectional temporality. 100 federal legal actors participated through a non-probabilistic sampling of voluntary subjects with informed consent. The ILO-WHO Work Stress Scale [1] and the GQH General Health Questionnaire [2] were applied by analyzing the data in the SPSS statistical program. It was concluded that the sources of work stress, such as organizational structure and climate, were strongly correlated between the dimensions themselves, showing an important correlation strength with the general health indicators of the legal actors, mainly with symptoms of anxiety and various physical discomforts.