Leonor M. Cantera

Cuestionario de Bienestar Laboral General: Estructura y Propiedades Psicométricas

The general work well-being questionnaire (qBLG) was developed with the aim of providing a measurement tool particularly sensitive to the psychosocial dimension of work well-being of care workers, and to the bipolar nature of the well-being experience. 1252 professionals of health care (medical and nursing) and of higher education employed in hospitals and universities from Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Spain, respectively, answered a series of closed items from a questionnaire organized according with a theoretical model of general work well-being. Factor analysis found two independent factors in the qBLG, the first one including three scales of psychosocial well-being and the second three scales of collateral effects. All scales showed high internal consistency. The qBLG faithfully reproduces the structure of the proposed theoretical model, and combines the required psychometric properties for the evaluation of work well-being of health care and of higher education professionals.

Work, family, and gender: elements for a theory of work-family balance.

Over last century, work was not only a means of economic survival, but also a very strong factor of psychological structuring and of organization of personal, family, and everyday life. The new world of work provides new challenges to the balance of work and family life. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 453 people with the aim of analyzing the relation between variables such as family burdens and domestic responsibilities, and the appraisal of work and family, values involved in work-family balance. The results of this study show that, in the present economic and cultural context, assuming family burdens and domestic responsibilities increases the positive appraisal of work and family, both in men and women. This has theoretical and practical implications concerning the challenge of work-family balance.

El Malestar en el Empleo Temporal Involuntario

Resumen es: El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el papel de la voluntariedad de la situacion ocupacional en el malestar psicologico en el empleo temporal. Se ap...

Políticas e leis sobre violência de gênero - reflexões críticas

Laws and public policies aimed at gender violence-related issues deserve to be reflected upon at the time of their application and analysis. In the context of a heterocentric and patriarcal society, their application is not free from difficulties, traps and lacunae. This text, grounded analytically on critical psychology, post-structuralist gender studies, queer theory, and critical criminology, intends to be an invitation to a reflection on how these laws and policies have contributed to building and maintaining a stereotype and antinomy of man-as-aggressor versus woman-as-victim. For such, it is necessary to focus on the processes whence the subjects produce gender. Our motivation is to contribute with analytical tools that enable opening new perspectives for legal and assistential intervention. As conclusions, we underline the importance of freedom from a linear, dichotomous discourse, of paying attention to power relations, and of taking into consideration normative-decentred differences and particularities, and from fixed heterocentred positions.

‘Exceptional’, ‘normal’ or a ‘myth’? The discursive construction of the ‘crisis’ by Greek employees

This article aims to explore the construction of the concept of the ‘crisis’ by Greek employees, when they talk about paid work. In order to do so, 22 interviews with employees aged 23–43 were analysed, deploying the analytic tool of ‘positioning’, informed by poststructuralist assumptions about discourse and the subject. This perspective seeks to illuminate how the hegemonic discourses both on the ‘crisis’ and waged labour persist and are being legitimated through peoples’ mundane practices and speech, aspiring to trace alternative narratives that challenge them. According to our analysis, the ‘crisis’ was discursively formulated in three different, and at a first glance even contradictory, ways: as a ‘state of exception’, as a ‘normal condition’ and as a ‘myth’, serving each time a different function regarding the constitution of the self and the social.

Investigación sobre Violencia de Género en la Pareja: Recomendaciones Prácticas

El objetivo de este trabajo es relatar la experiencia de busqueda de participantes de una investigacion cualitativa sobre violencia de genero en la pareja contra mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas. Se discuten cuestiones como dificultades de la insercion en el campo, estrategias para lograr el muestro, aspectos eticos a tener en cuenta en estudios sobre violencia. Esas dificultades encontradas en el recurrido metodologico pueden ser un reflejo de los obstaculos que impiden que las mujeres busquen apoyo institucional. Ello lleva a entender que hay barreras comunes en el campo de investigacion e intervencion en violencia de genero que merecen ser identificadas y superadas. Por ultimo, se advierte sobre el impacto de las entrevistas sobre violencia en la vida de los(as) investigadores(as) y se sugiere que ellos(as) adopten estrategias para equilibrar su vida personal y profesional a traves de actividades que puedan descargar la carga emocional producida a partir del trabajo con violencia

Research about gender violence: practical guide

El objetivo de este trabajo es relatar la experiencia de busqueda de participantes de una investigacion cualitativa sobre violencia de genero en la pareja contra mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas. Se discuten cuestiones como dificultades de la insercion en el campo, estrategias para lograr el muestro, aspectos eticos a tener en cuenta en estudios sobre violencia. Esas dificultades encontradas en el recurrido metodologico pueden ser un reflejo de los obstaculos que impiden que las mujeres busquen apoyo institucional. Ello lleva a entender que hay barreras comunes en el campo de investigacion e intervencion en violencia de genero que merecen ser identificadas y superadas. Por ultimo, se advierte sobre el impacto de las entrevistas sobre violencia en la vida de los(as) investigadores(as) y se sugiere que ellos(as) adopten estrategias para equilibrar su vida personal y profesional a traves de actividades que puedan descargar la carga emocional producida a partir del trabajo con violencia

Pesquisa sobre violência de gênero no casal: recomendações práticas

El objetivo de este trabajo es relatar la experiencia de busqueda de participantes de una investigacion cualitativa sobre violencia de genero en la pareja contra mujeres inmigrantes latinoamericanas. Se discuten cuestiones como dificultades de la insercion en el campo, estrategias para lograr el muestro, aspectos eticos a tener en cuenta en estudios sobre violencia. Esas dificultades encontradas en el recurrido metodologico pueden ser un reflejo de los obstaculos que impiden que las mujeres busquen apoyo institucional. Ello lleva a entender que hay barreras comunes en el campo de investigacion e intervencion en violencia de genero que merecen ser identificadas y superadas. Por ultimo, se advierte sobre el impacto de las entrevistas sobre violencia en la vida de los(as) investigadores(as) y se sugiere que ellos(as) adopten estrategias para equilibrar su vida personal y profesional a traves de actividades que puedan descargar la carga emocional producida a partir del trabajo con violencia