PERCEPÇÃO DE SUCESSO NA CARREIRA E RESILIÊNCIA: UM ESTUDO COM ADMINISTRADORES

• Autor(a) principal: Peres, Sandra Regina
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1367
• topic: Carreira; Percepção de sucesso na carreira; Resiliência; Career; Perception of Career Success; Resilience; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Professional success is related to the individuals satisfaction with his/her career in the long run. This satisfaction comes from intrinsic and extrinsic factors,that in one hand is based on an objective dimension the most visible aspects of career success that includes: salaries, career development, status and career development opportunities (for instance, job promotions); and on the other hand a subjective one, which refers to personal interpretation of what constitutes success, especially in career: job satisfaction, pride, feelings of self-realization, among others. The perception of success can be associated with individual characteristics such asresilience, which can be understood as a positive attitude during the dynamic process of adaptation in face of adversity. In the literature, there were no studies correlating both variables, that is, about how much personal resilience can contribute to the perception of career success. To investigate this influence, this research aims to identify whether personal resilience of administrators predicts their perception of career success. This study has involved 137 business personnel (56.1pc female and 43.7pc male), who have been graduatedin different institutions and whose average age was 33 years old by the time the study was performed; in addition, according to marital status, the population was evenly divided among married and singles (44.5pc for both categories). Data has been collected through a sociodemographic questionnaire, based on the Perception Scale of Career Success and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). The answers were processed by an electronic data bank and were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Results of hierarchical regression analyzes revealed that resilience predicts 5.5pc of the objective perception of success in career and 9pc of the subjective perception about the same matter. By adding the interaction between age and job experience (which is measured in years), the predictive power of both models, for both objective and subjective aspects of success perception, rose substantially, reaching twice of the previous measures. Thus, resilience helps participants realize career success in both dimensions, objective and subjective, and the prediction is enhanced by the interaction between age and experience. Our findings confirmed the hypothesis. The study brought contributions to the literature, but limitations were also recognized, under which it was proposed a researching agenda for future studies.