Exigencias emocionales como un factor de riesgo psicosocial asociado a la salud mental en el trabajo

Abstract

The objective of this article is to review theoretical aspects about the psychological affectations in the associated psychosocial risk factors in mental health at work. The bibliographic review of documents from various theoretical perspectives was used as a methodology, with a chronological order that goes from 2011 to the present (2020), these were obtained with reliable databases allowing search by means of keywords. According to the results, it is stated that emotional demands is a psychosocial risk factor with a higher level of importance that greatly affects workers in an organization because they constantly demand high mental load demands which affect both the mental health as well as physical health, and likewise generates a series of disturbances which are foreseen in some cases by the labor institutions and for this reason actions are carried out that allow the identification and the correct action plan for the prevention of this type of risks, so that they can have a higher level of productivity. As conclusions, it is taken into account that for psychology, stability in mental health and emotional well-being is of due importance, since it allows the individual to create strategies to face situations that he considers risky in the