“…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). Due to that, to contribute with a holistic perspective and to identify the variability in the perception of the studied phenomenon, this study provides conclusions of an empirical investigation that measures role ambiguity in five areas of knowledge.…”