Características ambientais e bem-estar psicológico em servidores do Poder Judiciário

Abstract

The current study aim to analyze the perception of professionals in the state justice of the city of Patos-PB about the characteristics of the social-labor environment and its effects on the psychological well-being (PWB), using as reference the ecological mental health model, formulated by Peter Warr. 72 workers take part on the research, which can be understood as a sample of 69,9% of the study (N=103). The following instruments were applied: General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12), Rosenberg’s Self Esteem Scale (RSES), Affective Well Being Work Scale (JAWS) and Work Conditions Questionnaire (WCQ). The data collected were released in Statistical Package for Social Science – SPSS program and descriptive statistical procedures (medians, percentiles, frequencies and percentages), the normality test (Shapiro Wilk) Clusters analysis, correlations (Spearman’s) and Hierarchical Multiple Linear Regression were applied. The results identify two profiles of Psychological Well Being, nominated as Deficit and Balanced. It was observed that the group with a balanced PWB profile is bigger and includes married professionals. In both profiles, the category “socially valued position” was noted as the most abundant in the work environment, suggesting that the studied sample is proud to practice a function of valued and useful status to society. In the ecological model, this environment category has a constant effect (CE) on health, therefore it is not harmful when over-noticed. It was also pointed out, that, none of the environment categories was seeing as deficient and three environment aspect stood out as the most influential in the levels of happiness: clarity of the environment, externally generated objectives, and position with social value, allowing us to conclude, based on the ecological model, that the PWB conditions are preserved in the majority of the sample, specially due to the positives effects of these three environmental aspects, which, certainly, the institution can manages to adequately provide its workers.