Internal sense of coherence (isc) and balance between effort and reward of workers in the sector of information technology (IT) / Sentido interno de coerencia (sic) e equilibrio entre esforço e recompensa em trabalhadores do setor de tecnologia de informação (TI)

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

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Objective: Identify the occurrence of Imbalance between Effort and Reward in Work, characterize the Sense of Coherence of the study sample and correlate them, in a private company of the field of Information Technology (IT), in the city of Campinas/SP. Method: 99 subjects of a population of N=137 of different socio-demographic occupational levels filled out two self-applicable questionnaires: i) Sense of Coherence Questionnaire (SOC) (Antonovsky, 1988) with Portuguese validation by Saboga Nunes (1999), ii) The Questionnaire of Balance Between Effort and Reward at Work. ERI (Effort Reward - Imbalance) (Seigrist, 1999) validated for use in Brazil by Guimaraes et al (1998). Results: most participants are: male (71%); of an average age of 30, in the age range of 26 to 35 (54%), college educated (7%), single (62%), work in a technical area (75%), occupy a function of analyst (69%), have a fully registered work contract (53%). Fifty three percent (53%) of them have been in the company for less than 2 years. The majority got a SIC average (63.9%) and sixty eight per cent (68%) also presented average significability (68%), manageability (59%) and comprehensibility (59.8%). Four (4) participants presented risk for over-commitment. None of the participants presented Imbalance between Effort and Reward at Work (ERI). There was no significant dependence found between socio-demographic-occupational data with the ERI and the SIC. The subjects not at risk in over-commitment presented a higher average in the SIC than those at risk. The non-proportional irritability (dimension of over-commitment influenced the SIC. Conclusions: The participants that presented a lower risk for over-commitment had a lower SIC score, besides the non-proportional irritability influenced it, evidencing, therefore, the function of SIC as a mediator of risk for occupational stress

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trabalhadores workers mental health saude mental information technology tecnologia de informação

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