Ecuadorian Journalists Mental Health Influence on Changing Job Desire: A Cross Sectional Study

Byron Fernando Bustamante-Granda, Claudia Rodríguez-Hidalgo, María Aranzazu Cisneros-Vidal, Diana Rivera-Rogel and Claudia Torres-Montesinos
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Byron Fernando Bustamante-Granda: Department of Communication Sciences and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110107, Ecuador
Claudia Rodríguez-Hidalgo: Department of Communication Sciences and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110107, Ecuador
María Aranzazu Cisneros-Vidal: Department of Communication Sciences and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110107, Ecuador
Diana Rivera-Rogel: Department of Communication Sciences and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110107, Ecuador
Claudia Torres-Montesinos: Department of Communication Sciences and Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Humanities, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja 110107, Ecuador

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 19, 1-13

Abstract: Journalist’s mental health could predict their job change. This study aims at determining the prevalence of mental health issues and their association with perception of aptitude for covering emergencies and difficulty in seeing a corpse, and also to determine the mental health factors associated with job change. An ad hoc survey, GHQ-28 (Somatization, Anxiety-Insomnia, Social Dysfunction, Depression), MBI-P (Burnout, Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, personal accomplishment) and Brief scale to diagnose Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suicide Risk were applied to 196 journalists (female = 51.6%). Descriptive analysis, correlations (Pearson and Spearman), T-test and binary logistic regression were performed. It was found that one third part of journalists perceive themselves as having low aptitude to cover emergencies and difficulty in seeing a corpse, 17.3% would consider changing jobs and 42.1% could only access free mental health services. The most frequent mental health problems are: low personal accomplishment, emotional exhaustion and post-traumatic stress disorder (11.2 to 17.3%). People who want to change jobs present more: social dysfunction, depression, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, low personal accomplishment, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk. The two mental health factors associated with desire of changing jobs are high emotional exhaustion, and low personal accomplishment. These results guide the psychosocial risk prevention processes for journalists, as well as the training needs that universities could consider to protect the mental health of this vulnerable group.

Keywords: journalists; emotional exhaustion; job change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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