Abstract

SILVA, Ednaldo Antonio da; ARRUDA FILHO, Marcos Antonio Rodrigues de  and  MELO, Shirley Macedo Vieira de. Pleasure and suffering at work: A diagnosis study about workers that practice sky-diving in leisure time. Psicologia [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.1, pp.141-160. ISSN 0874-2049.

The present research had the objective to verify whether male workers in different companies, enrolled in their jobs for more than a year, had pleasant and suffering feelings in their daily lives, and if they adopted strategies such as sky-diving to cope with these feelings. Six employees were interviewed. The interviews were no-directive, and a stimulating question was presented in order to trigger participants’ statements. Using a qualitative methodology, statements were phenomenologically analysed, by dividing the text into units of meaning, and thus allowing the construction of a psychological understanding of participants’ experiences. For each statement a specific synthesis of experienced elements was elaborated. Results showed that those workers experienced more pleasure than suffering in the work context.

Keywords : sky-diving; work; pleasure; suffering; psychology of work.

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