Interferência de fatores ambientais e emocionais na voz de docentes universitários

Abstract

The voice is a human language component reinforced or weakened by the vocal dinamics defined by the voice impact of the talker in the listener, driving him apart or approximating him of his interlocutor. Purpose: identify the impact of environmental and emotional factors in professors in Goiânia,Goiás. Methods: 150 professors took part in the study, both sexs, teaching in 10 state, federal and private universities, from August 2005 to May 2006.The data was collected by Voice Activity and Participation Profile. The data was analyed through the Program Statistical Package for Social Sciences, (SPSS) 13.0 version. Results: The age group to include 25-65 years old and predominance of 25-35 years old group. The sex ratio of women to boys was 65% to 35%. There was predominance of teaching time of 1-9 years and the worklood between 1-20 hours (46%). The study showed that 93% of the professor s presented interference of the voice in the daily communication, 91% felt emotionally affected by vocal alterations; 88% mentioned to limit their activities in the presence of the voice desorders; 84% refered the voice alteration caused pressure in work and social communication. In relation to the environmental factors, the most importante ones were students talking and their number in classroom (58%), airconditioning (29%), external noise(26%) and the physical space and acoustics distribuition of classroom (16%). About the emotional factors the anxienty (44%). The most used coping tactics were hydration(42%), speak lower or avoid speaking (35%). The most relevante resilience factor was the professors dealing with students (31%).Conclusion:This reseach evidenced the precarious work conditions, the fails infrastructure of the universities as in the coping strategies used by the professor, constitute a determinan factor to unleassh the voice alterations.