Felicidade e significado: um estudo sobre o bem-estar em profissionais da educação do estado de São Paulo

Abstract

AGRADECIMENTOSEscrever os agradecimentos de um trabalho científico é um ato extremamente gratificante, pois se trata, na verdade, de uma jornada nas lembranças dos inúmeros acontecimentos vividos até o momento. E nessa viagem mental, o maior desafio é identificar todas as pessoas que tiveram participação e exerceram uma generosa contribuição para que o trabalho fosse realizado com dedicação. Diante disso, seguimos para esse prazeroso desafio.Agradeço ao financiamento oferecido pelo CNPq. Pois graças a bolsa de mestrado pude me dedicar aos estudos. The current study aimed at identifying the happiness and meaningfulness attributed to different life domains by professionals of Education of the State of São Paulo. In order to do that, we clarified, through a bibliographical review, how happiness has been something of human interest over time. We emphasized that the concept of happiness differs according to language, culture and it has a plurality of associated terms in research. In a historical review, we have shown that happiness has been an ideal pursued since the earliest Western civilizations, received emphasis by the Greek philosophers, it has gone through the centuries, impacted the economy and the creation of its indexes in the last decades and it currently led to debate in the field of psychology. From this point, we approached the Positive Psychology movement, its origins, proposals, evolution in the national scenario, initial misconceptions and the unfolding of the well-being construct. As these studies advanced, two conceptions stand out: Subjective Well-Being and Psychological Well-Being, based on the philosophical concepts of hedonia and eudaimonia. In this sense, we presented the emerging proposals that set out an approximation between these philosophical lines and a theoretical-methodological articulation that offers a complex perspective on happiness. By means of a theme review on happiness and an understanding of its articulation with the conceptions of hedonia and eudaimonia, this study proposes evaluating the levels of happiness and meaningfulness in different life domains, which were ranked by professionals of the State of São Paulo. To this end, we used a sample of 2.021 individuals between the ages of twenty and seventy, who participated in the selection process for the Specialization Course in Ethics, Values and Citizenship in School conducted by the University of São Paulo. The instrument used was the Eudaimonic Hedonic Happiness Inventory (EHHI), devised by open questions and scales for assessing the level of happiness and meaning in eleven different life domains. The data were collected in person in the cities of São Paulo, São Carlos, Ribeirão Preto and Campinas in August 2013. The results showed that family, health and personal growth are the life domains with more evidence of happiness and meaningfulness. It was also possible to perceive that teachers who were at the end of their careers are happier and younger ones have less meaning in life. Finally, the results of meaningfulness prese...

Burnout syndrome: the impact on people management and prevention ways

“…A field survey was carried out with 89 students from a private educational institution in the extreme south of Bahia through a closed questionnaire. The main results obtained in the sample were the presence of many symptoms that occurred in the three main dimensions approached by Benevides-Pereira (2002). This research's current theme must be observed accurately by the people management because it is a silent and devastating danger to lives and it represents a warning factor for enterprises around the modern world.…”

“…Benevides Pereira (2002) completes that it is a process that develops sequentially, and its three dimensions must be considered to characterize the syndrome. According to the aforementioned author, the Emotional Exhaustion dimension presents characteristics that influence motivation, and the feeling that you have reached the limit of your attempts, whether social or organizational.…”

“…Then the feeling of insufficiency comes and the victim ends up deteriorating every part of life: health, relationships and work. According to Benevides Pereira (2002), the Emotional Exhaustion dimension presents characteristics that influence motivation, feeling that you have reached the limit of your attempts, whether social or organizational. In addition, there are symptoms of headaches, feelings of exhaustion, loneliness and even distrust of other people.…”

“…The main authors referenced in this research were Benevides Pereira (2002), Chiavenato (2014), andFreudenberger (1975).…”

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“…Iniciamos com as diversas concepções de felicidade na literatura localizada. Pereira (2017) destaca que os conceitos de felicidade estão sujeitos à concepção pessoal do pesquisado e do pesquisador em relação ao contexto, do lugar de onde se fala. Associamos a este conceito o entendimento de que a felicidade é tambem um sentimento resultante de experiências concretas e subjetivas associadas a uma sensação de bem-estar, de alegria, de paz e gratidão existencial.…”