Influence of Resilience on Burnout Syndrome of Faculty Professors.

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.

Influence of COVID-19 Pandemic Uncertainty in Negative Emotional States and Resilience as Mediators against Suicide Ideation, Drug Addiction and Alcoholism.

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.

Liderazgo y su relación con variables de resultado: un modelo estructural comparativo entre liderazgo transformacional y transaccional en una empresa de entretenimiento en México / Leadership and its Relationship with Outcome Variables: a Structural Model Comparing Transformational and Transactional Leadership in an Entertainment Company in Mexico

El objetivo de la investigación fue determinar la influencia de factores de liderazgo transformacional y transaccional en variables de resultado con personal directivo de nivel medio de una Empresa de Entretenimiento en México, D.F, con el Modelo de de liderazgo transformacional de Bass y Avolio. Se aplicó el "Cuestionario sobre Datos Sociodemográficos y Organizacionales del Trabajador" y la "Adaptación al Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire" (MLQ), a una muestra de n = 100 directivos de nivel medio. Los Modelos de Ecuaciones Estructurales determinaron que en el perfil de liderazgo de los directivos investigados destacan en primer lugar sub-escalas transformacionales como son: Estimulación intelectual, Influencia idealizada (Conducta), Influencia idealizada (Atributo) y Consideración individual. La variable de resultados más importante para ellos es el Esfuerzo extra. Lo anterior implica que los directivos estén interesados en desarrollar la capacidad de resolución de problemas y la actualización de su personal. Se reafirmaron los hallazgos teóricos y empíricos de estudios previos, como son las correlaciones directas significativas entre las variables de liderazgo (liderazgo transformacional, transaccional y variables de resultado), e inversas todas ellas con el no liderazgo. Se obtuvieron niveles de confiabilidad Alpha de Cronbach superiores a .70 en la evaluación de dichas variables, a partir de los instrumentos.

The purpose of this article was to determine the influence of transformational and transactional leadership behavior in the outcome variables of a sample of 100 managers within an entertainment provider organization in Mexico. Structural equation modeling showed that the leadership behavior factors of the participating managers highlighted in first place transformational subscales such as intelectual stimulation, idealized influence (behavior), idealized influence (atribute) and individual consideration. The most important outcome variable for them was extra effort. This result means that managers are interested in developing their followers skillness to resolve problems and update their staff. The theoretical and empirical findings of previous studies of the Model of Bass and Avolio were reaffirmed such as direct and significant correlations between the leadership behaviors and outcome variables and inverse correlations with laissez faire leadership behavior. Alpha Cronbach reliability values were above .70 in such variables.