Addiction and work vulnerability in university professors

Abstract

The study analyzes some manifestations of work addiction that are present in university professors and that, in the first instance, manifest themselves, among others, in completing tasks that correspond to academic status, while adhering to the parameters of increasing professional development and service to his group of colleagues and students. Related to this form of addiction, a space of vulnerability is discovered that these teachers suffer from, as they become susceptible to the demands resulting from labor dependence on their peers and the work environment in general. These demands tend to increase, in a permanent cycle of assumption of new tasks, with what one feeds, together with addiction, a perennial state of dissatisfaction associated with stress and other health problems. The need to investigate the course and impact of the addictive phenomenon and its connection with occupational vulnerability is explained. To comply with the above, the research terms were defined that allowed the bibliographic search to be undertaken and the corresponding selection of sources for review and in a later stage the critical analysis of the literature was carried out. The convenience of investing in the advance and ongoing training of university professors is analyzed, and possible future perspectives of research on the phenomenon under study are presented.