E-ISSN 2281-4612 ISSN 2281-3993 Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies www.richtmann.org Vol 11 No 6 November 2022 338 . Research Article © 2022 Figueroa-Suárez et al. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Received: 23 May 2022 / Accepted: 28 October 2022 / Published: 5 November 2022 Social Support and General Self-Efficacy: Predictors of Subjective Discomfort in Ecuadorian Teachers Fanny Filerma Figueroa-Suárez 1 Viviana Vanessa Flores-Mera 1 Dévora Del Rocío Vivas-Yong 1 Josué E. Turpo-Chaparro 1 Abel Apaza-Romero 2 Salomón Vásquez-Villanueva 2 1 Escuela de Posgrado, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, Peru 2 Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Educación, Universidad Peruana Unión, Lima, Peru DOI: https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2022-0172 Abstract The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated new challenges for regular basic education teachers, who, day by day, interact with students and constitute a significant part of the student's development. These new circumstances have affected teachers, raising their stress levels and affecting their skills. In this context, this study aims to determine the influence of social support and general self-efficacy on subjective discomfort in Ecuadorian regular basic education teachers. The methodology used was based on the predictive design in which 311 teachers participated, 230 women and 81 men. The selected instruments were the Duke-UNK-11 Functional Social Support Questionnaire, the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GAS) and the Kessler Subjective Discomfort Scale-10. The results showed that the Social support variable significantly influences subjective discomfort, showing that teachers who have high levels of social support show lower levels of subjective discomfort. It is concluded that social support is a predictor of subjective discomfort in Ecuadorian teachers of basic education. Keywords: Social Support, General Self-Efficacy, Predictors of Subjective, Ecuadorian Teachers 1. Introduction Due to the health emergency generated by SARS-CoV-2, companies had to reinvent themselves and adapt to a new way of life, which was experienced by educational institutions in Latin America.