Stress, quality of life, pleasure, and suffering on the job in a call center unit / Stress, qualidade de vida, prazer e sofrimento no trabalho de Call Center

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2004

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The purpose of this paper is to verify the relationship among stress, quality of life, pleasure and suffering on the job of attending employees in a Call Center Unit in the city of Uberlândia-M.G. (Brazil). Some 162 employees volunteered to participate in the research of which 65,4% were female, 34% were male. 80% of the total were single and the average age was approximately 23 years old. In relation to the education the majority had high school diploma. The questionnaires, given in groups or individually, included an identification form and a sample of socio-demografic data, an Inventory of Stress Symptoms, Inventory of Ufe Quality and a Scale of Pleasure and Suffering at Work. Through the statistic analysis, it was observed meaningful associations among stress, life quality, pleasure and suffering at work. The presence of stress had a negative correlation with the social, professional and health of life quality quadrants. There was not a meaningful correlation between stress and affective quadrant. Pleasure at work was related positively with ali the quadrants of life quality. The suffering at work contributed to the failure in the social, professional and health quadrants. It was concluded that stress, pleasure and suffering at work are directly related to several dimensions of life quality.

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stress psicologia call center suffering prazer quality of life trabalho call center pleasure sofrimento stress qualidade de vida work

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