O trabalho e seus sentidos: Um olhar na perspectiva do aposentado

Abstract

The interplay between work and retirement has received emphasis in academic scenario, especially in Psychology, as a subject of interdisciplinary research. In the field of work relations, aim of this thesis interest, the retirement emerge to various dimensions, putting itself as one of the challenges to the psychologists that acts in personnel management. The aim of this study is to examine the meaning given to work and retirement, by the employees of the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, who is in transitional period to retirement and its correlation to good living. It’s a exploratory descriptive research with qualitative approach. The Psychodynamics of Work (PW) defends that the work is notreducible to a single activity of production in the objective world, as place always the subjectivity of worker in evidence, making that it comes changed. To work, than, is to transform yourself, a privileged possibility to the subjectivity of test yourself, to fulfill yourself. The pleasure-suffering is a unique construct, that begin in the mediations that the workers use to assure its health in the work accomplishment as a objective that is always sought to achieve. The sense of health, adopted by PDT contrasts to the stationary pattern prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) “complete state of bodily, mental and social well-being “, because, by Dejours (1986), health is about a dynamic process of facing of the demands of the work environment. It was performed a literature research about de means of work and retirement, in aim to know the state of art of the study emphasis. The chosen place to make this research was the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB). The sample was demarcated with the technical- administrative employees, in retirement period. The process of data collection happened by consultation in documents given by the PROGEP. In next was used a sociodemographic questionnaire as instrument to identify the participants profile. As the main data collection method, has been chosen Focal Group (FG). A thematic content analysis was carried out in order to achieve Analysis Categories. Primarily selected because of the chosen theoretical basis and the review of literature and the main speech of the focal group participators. The results found reveal that work has a meaning of social relations and security, gratitude, experiencing of pleasure and centrality and, in contrast, experiencing of suffering. The meaning given to retirement was: freedom, social rights, rejection, illness, and life project. The work presents a structuring dimension in the living of this research participants; social relations and personal conquests was built in the along the time, and, so, the imminence of being dropped out on this environment causes in retirees contentious senses between rejection and illness, but on other hand the perspective of freedom to live life projects. Because the subject’s importance, it is suggested that new studies can be carried out in this theme, specially related to the meanings of work and retirement, in other job categories, in order to guarantee subsidy to retirement preparation programs.