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The purpose of this research was to prepare a documentary review in an exhaustive way on the different articles found in psychological journals and repositories at national level on occupational stress in Colombia (2013-2018). It analyzed and highlighted from a psychosocial approach the concept of occupational stress, the main models that try to explain this phenomenon, the causes and harmful consequences that originate in the individual and in the organization. A great number of articles on the subject were found in repositories, since in total there were 29 out of 55 data. Based on the results, it could be observed that 2014 and 2017 were the two years where more journals on occupational stress were obtained and the cities where most of the journals found that referred to the investigated topic were Medellin and Bogota, equivalent to 69.09 % of the total data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this review article is to Analyze the main factors of psychosocial risks within the different environments subject to the work that employees can perform, affecting and influencing the different contexts where it is developed, based on the results obtained from research carried out at national and international level. In addition, the field was left open for the search of psychosocial risk factors since they can be found in any type of environment. The methodology is based on compilation of scientific literature, related to the topic of Psychosocial Risk Factors (RPS), taking into account the inclusion criteria; Spanish-speaking national and international level, thematic axis, seniority and articles published in scientific journals, the documentation required for this article was taken from the database Scielo, Database of the Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Redalyc and ProQuest. With a sample of forty scientific articles included in the literary review. The 40 articles included in the elaboration of this document, through their bibliographic analysis, considered the RPS, as the problematic factor of the organizations, because the high percentiles of exposure to psychosocial risks are increasing; the lack of programs or evaluation of psychosocial risk coerces the incidence of problems in the health of workers of a physical and mental nature. Therefore, most of the articles studied define psychosocial risks, as the factor that generates silent diseases, which, not treated in time, cause irreversible damage to the physical and psychological health of the individual, imbalance of the state of physical well-being and mental. Psychosocial risk factors have become the main problem of absenteeism in organizations of private or public nature, following this, the implementation of RPS evaluation methods in companies, of some commercial sectors; they consider unnecessary the application of instruments for the detection of psychosocial factors. The application process is vital for timely recognition of psychosocial risk factors and thus implement strategies, mitigation programs for psychosocial risks, thus achieving lower degrees of exposure to risk and generate safe and healthy work spaces that will not affect the physical and mental health of the workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]