Quality of life in teaching at the higher level: evaluation of professors in the Production Engineering field in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto, Guilherme Moreira Caetano
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Pedroso, Bruno, Moraes, Jessyca, Picinin, Claudia Tania
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/13689
• topic: Saúde; Educação Física; Engenharia de produção; Ensino superior; Avaliação da qualidade de vida.; Higher education; Evaluation of quality of life; Production engineering.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the quality of life (QOL) of all Brazilian professors who works in graduate course in Production Engineering field of 2013 to 2015.METHODS: For that, WHOQOL-bref instrument was applied in the Google Drive platform with 130 teachers enrolled in graduate programs of Production Engineering.RESULTS: The results showed higher QOL deficiency in the Recreation and Leisure (53.08), Positive feelings (57.88) and Sleep and Rest (59.42) facets. The points of greatest satisfaction were about Mobility (83.85), Self-esteem (81.73) and Home Environment (80.58). Nonetheless, the Psychological (70.48) and Physical (70.27) domains were the best scores. On the other hand, the Environment (66.18) and Social Relationship (66.28) had the worst scores. It is concluded that the teaching career justifies some positive and negative aspects of the researched population QOL.CONCLUSIONS: It was found that males scored higher than females, while professors with researcher grants had higher QOL scores compared with who did not hold researcher grant. Furthermore, it was possible to identify that individuals with 16 years or more of service time presented the lowest scores in four of seven items and that individuals with service time between eight to 15 years presented the highest scores in six of seven items evaluated in this study.