RELAÇÕES DE TRABALHO E BURNOUT: VOZES E VIVÊNCIA DE PROFESSORAS DE PROGRAMA STRICTO SENSU.

Abstract

The dissertation presents the results of a research held in an Institution of Higher Education that acts with education, research and extension, located in the city of Goiânia-Go. The primary objective of this study was to identify, describe and analyze the procedural factors that can lead some individuals of the female gender to constitute the Syndrome burnout, as well as the most used strategies of coping with it. The phenomenon of burnout, when thought in the light of the human condition, refers to some inquiries which can be analyzed through the scientific process, inside the reality of an institution of higher education. Among such questions the ones that stand out are: What are the values presented by the teachers of the stricto sensu programs in relation to their professional activities? Which stressors are associated with the professional activities from the teachers of the stricto sensu programs? What strategies of coping are most used by the teachers of the stricto sensu programs? Which personality characteristics resistant to the burnout in teachers from the stricto sensu programs can be observed? What is the existent relation between the female gender and the burnout? The dissertation is composed by an Introduction, Chapter I, Chapter II, Chapter III and Chapter IV. In the introduction and Chapters I and II are found the reasoning of the problem of study and the theoretical review of literature related to the following themes: the history of Universities in Brazil; the labor relations of an university teacher; labor relations in modernity; burnout: the syndrome of the contemporary world of work; professor labor relations and manifestations of burnout; the studies done on burnout in the context of education and strategies of coping in a working environment. On Chapter III and IV, elaborated in a form of article, presents the Introduction, the Methodology, the Results and a Discussion of an empirical study done with 33 teachers of Stricto Sensu Programs (master s and doctorate), of an Institution of Higher Education from the city of Goiânia-GO. Follow the References and Attachments.