(Des) encontros entre amor e trabalho : análise de díades no conflito trabalho-família

Abstract

Several changes have occurred in the family settings over the last decades and there is still much to understand about the interaction between work and family and between work and satisfaction with the love relationship, which will be treated with greater direction in this dissertation. Studies show that a conjugal relationship considered satisfactory can bring several benefits to the individual, such as greater satisfaction with life and preservation of emotional health. In addition, job satisfaction also proves to be important to the individual's physical and mental health. Seeking to advance in scientific knowledge within these themes, this work was divided in the format of two articles and had as focus to explore the conflict between family and work in the evaluations of satisfaction with the work and of satisfaction with the love relationship through the dyadic analysis of data. The results showed that there is more interference of labor variables in marital satisfaction for males than females and indicated the presence of similar levels of marital satisfaction between married couples and single earn couples. In addition, the objective was to adapt and present evidence of validity of a reduced version of the ENRICH Conjugal Satisfaction Scale for Brazilians, aiming to broaden the national role of appropriate psychological instruments for this purpose. The final version of this measure had good precision indicators (coefficients of omega reliability and Cronbach's alpha of 0.80 and 0.78 respectively), showing that this scale are favorable for the measurement of marital relationships for the Brazilian population. In general, the study allowed to expand the knowledge within the themes of work-family conflict, marital satisfaction and job satisfaction in Brazil, presenting a special relevance due to the method of data analysis performed with dyads. It is important to emphasize the need for additional research in order to deepen knowledge in this area and to verify the existence of other psychosocial variables that may be related to marital satisfaction, job satisfaction and work-family conflict for the Brazilian population