INVENTÁRIO DE FELICIDADE NO TRABALHO: evidência de validade de critério

Abstract

Scientific literature has indicated that men and women do not present significant differences in terms of happiness, both in general and at work. In observance of this evidence, the present study aims to verify evidence of criterion validity of the Happiness at Work Inventory (IFT), comparing the scores of 814 Brazilian adults, aged between 18 and 65 (M=38.1; SD=8.40), being 562 women. It was evident that both the total IFT score and the score of its three factors corroborate the trend in the literature, in which there are no significant differences between men and women regarding of happiness at work. The results indicate that happiness is a complex phenomenon, which cannot be explained exclusively by biological factors, such as sex, and the material contexts of existence and psychosocial relationships must be added, together with awareness and the recurrent practice of spirituality, while variables relevant to their assessment in the work.