“…Under those circumstances, empirical investigations are in order, with the purpose of identifying if the faculty members, of such universities, are perceiving role ambiguity, and if so, in which environments, and, accordingly to their sociodemographic and academic profiles, in which areas there's the most evidence, this with the goal of contributing to the inhibition of factors and circumstances that might be developing the problem. In the same way, role ambiguity has been measured in different types of populations such as: professional soldiers, undergraduate students, public employees, business advisers and business-administrative staff (Bernhard, 1996;Díaz-Fúnez, Pecino & Mañas, 2016;Kirk-Brown & Wallace, 2004;Mansilla, 2011;Meliá, Zornoza, Sanz, Morte & González, 1987;Núñez & Fresatti, 2016;Osca, González-Camino, Bardera & Peiró, 2003;Rizzo, House, & Lirtzman, 1970). Nonetheless, studies related to role ambiguity in university professors are insufficient, and these have been centred in only one area of knowledge at a time: health (Gomley, 2005) and Social and Administrative Sciences (Surdez, Magaña y Sandoval, 2017).…”