QUALIDADE DE VIDA – UM ESTUDO REALIZADO COM DIRETORES DE ESCOLAS PÚBLICAS

• Autor(a) principal: Silva Júnior, Pedro Alves da
• 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/1574
• topic: Qualidade de vida; estresse; Diretor de Escola; ensino público; Quality of life; stress; School Principal; public education; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Brazilian political and economic structure promotes a society marked by social inequalities, generating indignation and various conflicts. Stress, anxiety, depression, malaise professional, poor infrastructure, inadequate diet, physical inactivity, (i) urban mobility, fragility of social bonds, pollution, among others, are contemporary factors that affect the quality of life of human beings. This scenario deserves particular attention when we refer to the school environment. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) and to identify the degree of perceived stress in Municipal Schools of directors of Early Childhood Education (EMEIs) in São Paulo. The study included 86 school principals, representing 16.04% of total EMEIs directors of Municipal Education Network (RME). Instruments: socio demographic questionnaire, Quality of Life-abbreviated Assessment Instrument - WHOQOL-BREF and the Perceived Stress Scale - PSS. The results revealed that, on average, 70.9% have excessive routine work, characterized by: arrive early and / or leave later normal business hours; receive and / or make calls, messages, emails or similar, related to the direction, outside of working hours and take home service and / or worry about issues relating to direction after close of business. The majority (60.05%) believes that working conditions while school principal influence negatively on personal health. Both the general index of quality of life as compared to WHOQOL-bref domains showed average significantly below the Brazilian normative data 12.7 ± 3.1 (p <0.001). Regarding the level of perceived stress, initially we analyzed the frequencies relating to perceived stress levels. The results showed that the perceived stress level is between 48.8% of "time" for 41.9% of "almost always". This result shows statistically significant (χ2 p <0.05). According this study, we observed the lack of studies on QOL and stress with school principals, QOL performed significantly below expectations, and the perception of stress in nearly half of the sample studied.