No previous studies in Mexico have been found that jointly analyze physical and leisure activities as variables related to mental health in police officers. This paper presents research on burnout in Mexican Police officers. The question it answers is: is there any association of burnout with physical and leisure activities and personal profile? A total of 276 police officers (87% men and 13% women) participated. To obtain information, the Spanish Burnout Inventory and the Operational Police Stress questionnaires were used. A cross sectional study design was utilized with tests of validity and reliability, goodness of fit, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and analysis of k-means clusters. Results showed that a high number of policemen had high prevalence of burnout and a high level of mental exhaustion, and that exercise was positively and significantly related to lower burnout risk. Men showed higher risk than women. Results should be considered to improve interventions and occupational health practices in the police force. This paper improves understanding of burnout among policemen and the importance of exercise and leisure activities to alleviate burnout.

This research aims to describe the relationship between resilience and burnout facing COVID-19 pandemics. The sample was n = 831 lecturers and professors of a Mexican public university. This study is a quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, explanatory, and ex post facto research using Structural Equations Modeling with latent variables under the partial least square’s method technique. We used the CD-RISC-25 and SBI questionnaires to measure resilience and burnout, respectively. Structural Equations Modeling (SEM–PLS) allowed the visualization of the exogenous variable (resilience) in endogenous variables (dimensions of SBI burnout: E9 guilt, E7 emotional exhaustion, E8 indolence, and E6 work illusion). To this day, there are very few previous studies that jointly analyze in Mexico the characteristics of resilience and burnout in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings show that resources availability has the strongest correlation with accomplishment in teaching, followed by cynicism and emotional exhaustion. These results have important professional implications.

This research uses structural equation modeling to determine the influence of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic as an independent variable in the negative emotional states and resilience (as mediating variables) vs. drug addiction, alcoholism, and suicide ideation as dependent variables in 5557 students from a public state university in Northern Mexico. The five variables are related through eight hypotheses and tested using partial least squares. We used an adapted questionnaire sent by email in May 2020. Findings show that uncertainty facing the COVID-19 pandemic had a direct and significant influence on negative emotional states and a significant inverse effect on resilience; in the trajectory, drug addiction and alcoholism, and suicide ideation are explained.

In organizations, social benefits are expected to positively influence employee engagement and job satisfaction. Likewise, organizational socialization becomes key to achieving work commitment and can also be improved by the introduction of social benefits. Thus, the main aim of this research is to determine how the variables social benefits, bonuses and incentives, work commitment, and organizational socialization are related, taking data gathered from the maquiladora industry of northern Mexico as a reference. This research used a cross-sectional study design to collect data from workers at the operational level, obtaining 377 complete questionnaires for analysis; later, using the structural equation modeling technique, it was concluded that social benefits had a positive impact on work commitment as well as on organizational socialization, whereas a lack of bonuses and incentives negatively impacts on the organizational socialization. Understanding these relationships could provide important information to the managers of companies in the manufacturing sector that would allow them to carry out strategies focused on the sustainability of human resources to increase their well-being and thus their performance at work.

Esta investigación es cuantitativa, transeccional, deductiva y correlacional.El objetivo general del presente estudio fue realizar un análisis para conocer la incidencia de los factores motivacionales en el compromiso organizacional que presentan los millennials que trabajan comoempleados directos de una empresa de la industria maquiladora ubicada en la ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, México; desde el modelo de Allen y Meller (1990) para la variable Compromiso Organizacional y sus dimensiones Compromiso Afectivo, Compromiso de Continuidad y Compromiso Normativo y el Modelo de Herzberg de Motivación.El instrumento de Herberg (1959) fue utilizado para la recolección de la información, el cual consta de 40 ítems y analiza los factores higiénicos y los factores motivacionales, teniendo en cuenta que el objetivo de la presente investigación es analizar la incidencia de los factores motivacionales en el compromiso organizacional. Se descartó del análisis los factores higiénicos, por lo que el instrumento analiza 15 ítems y cinco dimensiones a una población de personal directo de n=146, se excluyen del estudio supervisores, asistentes de producción y personal administrativo. Los resultados confirman los hallazgos de estudios previos realizados tanto en México como en otros países. Se recomienda poner atención a esos factores que son distintos para las nuevas generaciones de Millennials.

El objetivo del estudio fue explorar la experiencia de hostigamiento laboral, también conocido como mobbing, vivida por un grupo de trabajadoras de la industria maquiladora en México pertenecientes a una empresa que fabrica bolsas de aire para automóvil en Baja California. Los datos se recolectaron a través de encuestas, utilizando como criterio el modelo Ten-mobbing modificado de Trujillo, et al. (2007) y el instrumento IVAPT-PANDO, de Pando, et al. (2006). El instrumento consta de cinco dimensiones: actuación de la víctima, actuación de acoso de grupos sociales sobre la víctima, sentimientos de testigos, organización en el trabajo y comportamiento organizativo; asimismo, se determina la presencia de violencia psicológica, así como también se identifica de dónde proviene la agresión. Adicionalmente, se cuestiona si existe correlación entre las dos subescalas aplicadas y la violencia observada en las mujeres que laboran en dicha empresa.Los resultados demuestran que sí existen manifestaciones de acoso psicológico contra las mujeres encuestadas principalmente, entre las que se observan desvalorización de su trabajo, y falta de reconocimiento, mediante actitudes en las que, por ejemplo, ignoran sus éxitos laborales, las interrumpen continuamente cuando tratan de hablar, al atacarlas verbalmente y criticar severamente su trabajo, al dudar de su capacidad para hacer bien sus tareas, al bloquear sus oportunidades de ascenso, entre otras. Adicionalmente, se observan altas correlaciones entre las subescalas utilizadas en el estudio.