Subjective well-being and compromise with the faculty career: examining their relations

Abstract

The changes faced by the university education in Brazil take place simultaneously with those occurred on a broader view in the world of work, especially regarding the occupation of faculty members as units of important analysis for investigations in the arena of organizational and work psychology. Studies addressing compromise with work highlight the relation with the career as a focus of continuous growing significance in the lives of individuals, which work environments are becoming increasingly uncertain and mutant. This objective of this study was to examine the associations between compromise with career and subjective well-being among faculty members. For such purpose the author carried out a quantitative cross survey using self-applicable closed-type questionnaires responded by 551 teachers throughout the national territory. The main results include the high level of compromise with the career, as well as a positive and significant correlation between the compromise and the subjective well-being of faculty members, thus confirming the trends reported by the international literature and broadening the possibilities of associations between the compromise and non-work variables. Intensive and qualitative studies are recommended in order to understand the meaning of these associations and how those two variables are correlated.