Abstract

SALAZAR ESTRADA, José Guadalupe  and  RUVALCABA ROMERO, Norma Alicia. The worker's psichosocial factors of the manufacturing industry in México. Trab. soc. [online]. 2013, n.20, pp.119-129. ISSN 1514-6871.

This paper seeks to identify the relationship between mental health and Sense of Coherence (SOC) and psychosocial factors relation to perception characteristics of work through a cross-sectional study, descriptive in a random sample of workers in a manufacturing Industry. The highest overall score of SC what men earn is 124.44. The presence of a "low state of mental health" is presented in 17.61% of males and 29.45% for women being in men where statistically significant differences with respect to the higher average age of the worker and the work time. The SOC scores were higher in subjects with better mental health in both sexes and was inversely correlated with scores on the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) in all subjects studied.

Keywords : Perception; Psychological; Sense of coherence; Mental health.

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