(In) Satisfação das Prioridades Axiológicas e Saúde-doença Mental no Trabalho

Abstract

The present study has inquired about the relationship between the satisfaction and dissatisfaction of the axiological priorities and the health and wellness in the job. It was assured that the impossibility of accomplishment of the job values is related to the mental illnesses of the workers, and this relation is moderated by the age and the hierarchical level. It took part in this study, 220 workers from a mixed economy enterprise, the general health questionnaire (GHQ) and the scale of values related to work (EVT). The results confirmed that there is a moderated effect of the age over the relationship between dissatisfaction of the prestige values and mistrust towards the own performance and the psichological stress. It has been recognized differents levels of work satisfaction values, according to the age, the hierarchical level and job tenure. It hasn t been found differences according to the education and to the gender. The dissatisfation of the accomplishment was related to sintomatic scores in all the items of the GHQ: psychological stress, disturbance in the sleep, insecurity about the own performance, psycossomatic disease, desire of death and health in general. As a matter of fact, the perstige dissatisfaction is related to the mistrust towards the own performance and the desire of death. Theses results are discussed according to a theoretical report about values and mental health at work, and considering the sample characteristics and the enterprise which the data were collected.