Abstract

PINHEIRO, Rafaele de Araújo; BENDASSOLLI, Pedro Fernando  and  BORGES, Livia de Oliveira. Work meaning inventory: exploring its evidences of validity in the building sector. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp. 46-64. ISSN 1808-4281.

This article aims to explore characteristics of validity to the Work Meaning Inventory (WMI), and to investigate the relationship of the types of meanings and socio-occupational variables. We applied the WMI to 402 workers in the building sector in two capitals for Brazilian Northeast. We used Smallest Space Analysis (SSA) to analyze the participants' answers. We found five types of values attributes and seven types of descriptive attributes of the work, which proved to be associated to the age, the working time in construction and the employment time in current job.

Keywords : work; meaning; building sector.

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