Introduction:

Teaching in general is a stressing job according International Labor Organization (ILO) due to exposure to risks factors arising from excessive workload coupled with institutional charges and low social value of the occupation. Due at overwork, it tends to invade the time that should be reserved for leisure activities and this poor time management can impact the stress and happiness of the advisors.

Purpose:

To verify the self-perception of leisure time management, satisfaction, occupational stress and happiness in advisors of graduate programs at a public state university.

Methods:

The sample was composed by 205 advisors who completed the Sociodemographic, Labor and Health Questionnaire (SLHQ) and the Occupational Stress Index (OSI). Of these, 66 advisors (32.2%) filled out for ten consecutive days Daily Activity Protocols (DAP) about time management of sleep, daily activities, work, and leisure time; and also answered a Visual Analog Scales (VAS) on self-perception of stress, happiness, and quality of leisure.

Results:

Performing leisure activities with others has a positive moderate correlation with self-perception of happiness (ρ=0.43), mainly when the leisure time was performed with family (ρ=0.40). Leisure activities with others have a positive moderate correlation with self-perception happiness (ρ=0.43), and a negative weak correlation wig self-perception stress (ρ=0.26). The correlation also increases when leisure is with family (ρ=0.40). There were also positive moderate correlation when analyzed leisure time with friends (ρ=0.32) and leisure alone (ρ=0.38).

Conclusions:

Leisure time with others or alone improved the self-perception of happiness of advisors, reducing the self-perception of stress.