Carga mental del trabajo y su relación con la calidad del sueño en guardias de seguridad en una empresa privada nacional en el periodo 2025

Abstract

This thesis focused on occupational psychology, specifically on mental workload and sleep quality in security guards. The main objective was to investigate the relationship between mental workload and sleep quality in security guards at a national private company between now and 2025. The intervention axis consists of describing key concepts with authors guided by previous research on the topic and how mental workload and sleep quality affect them. The instruments used in the research are the NASA TLX questionnaire to measure mental workload and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire to assess the security guards' sleep quality. The overall results show a high mental workload and moderate sleep quality. The statistics used showed no correlation or significance between the study variables in this research. Finally, it was concluded that the security guards at the national private company have a high mental workload, and the sleep quality for most participants is moderate