AVERSIVE CONTINGENCIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS OF TEACHERS IN THE ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT
Keywords:
teaching, psychological distress, academia, universityAbstract
How is the behavior of higher education faculty conditioned by stimuli that compromise the health of the work environment? To address this question, the objective was to investigate, in light of the scientific literature, the influence of aversive stimuli present in the organization of academic work on faculty behavior. This is a theoretical-reflexive study of a basic nature, oriented toward the construction and conceptual deepening at the interface between Information Science and Psychology, with a focus on studies of behavior and faculty psychological distress. After the theoretical argumentation, the results indicate that psychological distress in university teaching does not constitute an individual phenomenon or isolated subjective fragility, but rather emerges from an academic environment structured by contingencies of aversive control, productivist metrics, and informational flows that exhaust the production of knowledge.