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CUNHA, Rocelly; DIMENSTEIN, Magda Diniz Bezerra  e  DANTAS, Candida Maria Bezerra. The impact of the demands for scientific excellence on the health of PQ/CNPq researchers in Psychology. Rev. Subj. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.3, e12588.  Epub 22-Nov-2024. ISSN 2359-0769.  https://doi.org/10.5020/23590777.rs.v22i3.e12588.

The objective was to discuss the effects of the demands of scientific excellence on the health of psychology PQ/CNPq fellows. An online questionnaire was applied to a non-probabilistic sample of 85 women, among the 204 PQ/CNPq fellows registered in the system and remote interviews with 24 of them. The researchers identify processes of becoming ill due to the demands of academic work and research. They consider that sustaining a scientific career at a level of excellence in a sexist, patriarchal, unequal and precarious context reverberates negatively on health. Women, unlike male researchers, have to deal daily with institutionalized sexism, discrimination, and power hierarchies in universities and research institutions. In addition, with domestic and family responsibilities that are still strongly associated with women in the macho culture that permeates Brazilian society. These factors make them more vulnerable to suffering and illness. It is perceived that the academic demands are articulated to gender inequalities, creating an environment conducive to the expansion of vulnerability gradients and intensification of psychological suffering, as well as the adherence of women to the hegemonic individualizing rationality that disconnects the production of illness from life management and gender impositions.

Palavras-chave : gender; science; health-disease process; PQ scholars; psychology.

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