SIGNIFICADO DO TRABALHO E O BEM-ESTAR PSICOLÓGICO: UM ESTUDO COM DESEMPREGADOS.

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the moderacional power of the period of unemployment in the relationship between the meaning of the work and well-being. Unemployment, despite of being regarded as a significant stressor on workers can be experienced either positively or negatively, depending on the meaning that this job has for the individual from the unemployment time. Studies have shown the welfare as a multidetermined and variable and the period of unemployment has been a strong moderator experiences in the welfare of people unemployed. Specifically, this study was divided into two parts: first a theoretical article that talks about unemployment, the meaning of work and the psychological well-being. In the second part, an empirical paper analyzes the moderacional power of the unemployment duration of the relationship between the meaning of work and the psychological well-being unemployed. This is a crosssectional study that was conducted to test the conceptual model. The sample consisted of 258 unemployed, 77 men and 188 women with an average age of 27, completed high school, 48% of the total sample.