De casa para a rua e da rua para casa: implicações e interações família e trabalho
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2012-02-23
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Universidade Catolica de Salvador
Abstract
This research titled “From Home to the Street and from the Street to Home: Family
and Work Implications and Interactions has as aim to identify how couples with little
children organize themselves to conciliate family, marriage life, care with the sons
and professional fulfillment. It is characterized for being a quantitative study that has
30 (thirty) fathers and 30 (thirty) mothers as participants of the research. It was
developed in Santo Antonio de Jesus, an interior city of Bahia with parents from a
private school. The method consisted of a questionnaire adapted from the schedule
of the FAMWORK Project. It is focused family and work interactions and conciliations
from the following segments: family and work: profession, fulfillment, satisfaction,
organization and influence; division of duties: conflicts and negotiations to conciliate
families and professionals contests; family life: married couple relationships, parents
and sons; conciliations: oriented strategies to a common life and a personal life. It
has already approved by Ethics Committee of Research. There was a selection by
raffle of 20% (twenty percent) of registered students of Kindergarten of the
mentioned school. The students` parents answered the questionnaire together with
the term of free and clarified agreement. The data were analyzed by the Statistical
Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The open questions were elaborated by
categories from the given answers. The results were: couples with an eight-hour
workday, to live together establishing marriages, relatives and professional
relationships and recognizing individual interests while they develop strategies of
conciliation between work and family. The participants recognize the implications and
interactions between the two spheres: family and work and the centralization of both
for the personal life. In this sense, fathers and mothers look for to divide the family
duties with the help of relatives and external support (babysitter, school/institution of
kindergarten) as principal strategies of conciliation. They arranged to take turns
looking for to reduce the eight-hour workday, they plan and organize schedule,
agenda and duties distributing the obligations. In conclusion, there is a real effort of
both, the couples and professionals to conciliate family and work. It was observed
that they are dividing the duties but the majority of the obligations in relation to the
care with the sons, the mothers are responsible for them. The families are looking for
help from relatives and institutions and they invest in a babysitter as a helper of their
families. This verifies the necessity of other studies to become deep and extend the
results obtained in this work.
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Família, Trabalho, Interação, Conciliação, Family, Work, Interaction, Conciliation