Estratégias de conciliação na relação trabalho-família realizadas por professores universitários

Abstract

This study aims to investigate strategies of work-family conciliation adopted by university professors in a capital city of Northeast Brazil, associating it with the centrality attributed to the work by these participants. Sample was formed by 168 professors located in the city of XXXX, in the XX. Information was collected through the online application of a standardized instrument on conciliation strategies, adapted semantically to the Brazilian reality, together with a centrality scale of work. Data were analyzed using multivariate techniques and association between means. Results have indicated that the five conciliation strategies foreseen in the original model from which the scale was derived remain empirically with these participants, namely: a positive perspective on the dual income situation; mutual emotional support; professional adjustments; management and planning skills; and institutional support. The emotional support factor has stood out as the most important, taking into account the analysis of means. Centrality of work was not related to most factors, except with the emotional support factor. This paper suggests that this finding makes theoretical sense, insofar as conciliation strategies imply precisely the interconnection between family and work spheres.