Evitar el riesgo psicosocial de la soledad, con la formación universitaria

Abstract

Loneliness is a life experience, part of the vast array of human emotions, experienced based on objective or subjective perceptions related to incomprehension, isolation, lack of attachment to others, sadness, and insecurity. It is a feeling that can appear at any stage of life, but in recent years, an extraordinary increase in the number of lonely people has been reported worldwide, and at increasingly younger ages, leading to its classification by the World Health Organization as a "health priority. A documentary research technique was conducted on loneliness in working life and measures to avoid or resolve it during university education. In the productive sector, the economic costs of loneliness are only imaginable by its consequences in absenteeism, presenteeism, loss of productivity, healthcare costs, and staff turnover. In this sense, universities, as generators of the professional workforce, must provide the necessary knowledge and technology for all the careers they offer and that society demands, but currently they must also play an important role as protagonists of the health and well-being of their communities, developing functional and academic programs that help develop in students the truly human skills that the labor world demands so much and that society needs in terms of public health.