Relación entre el bienestar financiero y la salud mental en los trabajadores profesionales de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The aim of this research is to find the relationship between the financial well-being and the problems of mental health in the professional workers of the Guayaquil city. The methodological design for this study was an approach of not experimental, transverse and correlational-causal type to verify the hypothesis, the scales of depression, anxiety and stress DASS-21 and the scale of financial well-being formed a part of this analysis, with a sample to convenience of 441 professional individuals of the third and fourth level of education, polled in the Catholic University of Santiago of Guayaquil, where there was demonstrated that when the revenue increase, the financial well-being is better with a level of significance of (1%). In addition, to major depression, anxiety and stress, minor financial well-being with a level of significance of (5%), concluding that mental health in the professional workers depends on the financial well-being and that there is a relationship between the financial well-being and the depression, anxiety and stress. Therefore, the hypothesis was accepted by a negative but significance result of (1%), as it is observed in the correlation analysis, under the indicators of Cronbach's Alpha 0,789 and KMO 0,926. In addition, after results it introduced the proposal of the project an investment of a platform e- learning, where it will be inserted a program of financial education named PLANEFEC (Plan of Financial Education Ecuador) for the General Basic Education in Ecuador that understands the level of Basic Education, Middle Education and Highest Education.