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RESUMOO objetivo deste estudo foi investigar a qualidade de vida no trabalho (QVT) percebida pelos professores de Educação Física da rede pública estadual do RS, considerando os diferentes ciclos de desenvolvimento profissional que caracterizam a carreira docente. Participaram da investigação 380 professores de Educação Física, selecionados de forma estratificada proporcional e aleatória. Para a coleta de dados foi utilizada a Escala de Avaliação da Qualidade de Vida no Trabalho Percebida por Professores de Educação Física do Ensino Fundamental e Médio (QVT-PEF). Os resultados evidenciaram elevados níveis de satisfação dos professores em relação à sua QVT, entretanto, a dimensão remuneração e compensação foi a única em que os professores manifestaram-se insatisfeitos em todos os ciclos de desenvolvimento profissional. Conclui-se que com o avanço na carreira, os professores estão mais satisfeitos com a QVT.

Abstract:We employ existing data sets and agent-based modeling to forecast changes in religiosity and existential security among a collective of individuals over time. Existential security reflects the extent of economic, socioeconomic and human development provided by society. Our model includes agents in social networks interacting with one another based on the education level of the agents, the religious practices of the agents, and each agent's existential security within their natural and social environments. The data used to inform the values and relationships among these variables is based on rigorous statistical analysis of the International Social Survey Programme Religion Module (ISSP) and the Human Development Report (HDR). We conduct an evaluation that demonstrates, for the countries and time periods studied, that our model provides a more accurate forecast of changes in existential security and religiosity than two alternative approaches. The improved accuracy is largely due to the inclusion of social networks with educational homophily which alters the way in which religiosity and existential security change in the model. These dynamics grow societies where two individuals with the same initial religious practices (or belief In God, or supernatural beliefs) evolve di erently based on the educational backgrounds of the individuals with which they surround themselves. Finally, we discuss the limitations of our model and provide direction for future work.

We present a study of the dimensionality and factorial invariance of religiosity for 26 countries with a Christian heritage, based on the 1998 and 2008 rounds of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) Religion survey, using both exploratory and multi-group confirmatory factor analyses. The results of the exploratory factor analysis showed that three factors, common to Christian and religiously unaffiliated respondents, could be extracted from our initially selected items and suggested the testing of four different three-factor models using multi-group confirmatory factor analysis. For the model with the best fit and measurement invariance properties, we labeled the three resulting factors as “Beliefs in afterlife and miracles”, “Belief and importance of God” and “Religious involvement.” The first factor is measured by four items related to the Supernatural Beliefs Scale (SBS-6); the second by three items related to belief in God and God’s perceived roles as a supernatural agent; and the third one by three items with the same structure found in previous cross-cultural analyses of religiosity using the European Values Survey (ESS) and also by belief in God. Unexpectedly, we found that one item, belief in God, cross-loaded on to the second and third factors. We discussed possible interpretations for this finding, together with the potential limitations of the ISSP Religion questionnaire for revealing the structure of religiosity. Our tests of measurement invariance across gender, age, educational degree and religious (un)affiliation led to acceptance of the hypotheses of metric- and scalar-invariance for these groupings (units of analysis). However, in the measurement invariance tests across the countries, the criteria for metric invariance were met for twenty-three countries only, and partial scalar invariance was accepted for fourteen countries only. The present work shows that the exploration of large multinational and cross-cultural datasets for studying the dimensionality and invariance of social constructs (in our case, religiosity) yields useful results for cross-cultural comparisons, but is also limited by the structure of these datasets and the way specific items are coded.

RESUMOO objetivo deste estudo foi de identificar o nível de correlação entre qualidade de vida no trabalho (QVT) e estilo de vida (EV) dos professores de Educação Física. A amostra de 1645 professores foi selecionada por meio de três estágios. O primeiro estratificou a região sul do Brasil conforme as unidades da federação, o segundo dividiu cada estado em mesoregiões e o terceiro considerou os Núcleos Regionais de Ensino como conglomerados. Na coleta de dados foram utilizados questionários que avaliaram a QVT e o EV. O teste Qui-quadrado para grupo único foi empregado para constatar discrepâncias de opiniões e comportamentos, e o teste de Spearman para avaliar o nível de correlações entre as variáveis investigadas, com um nível de significância de 5%. Os resultados evidenciaram que os professores estão insatisfeitos com os salários, as condições de trabalho, a integração social e o tempo dedicado ao lazer, bem como possuem comportamentos negativos na alimentação, controle do estresse e atividade física. As evidências encontradas sobre o nível de associação entre os construtos dos parâmetros individual e sócio-ambiental das condições de vida do trabalhador docente em Educação Física foram consideradas insuficientes para indicar relação entre a QVT e o EV. Palavras-chave: condições de vida, qualidade de vida no trabalho, estilo de vida, trabalho docente, educação física ABSTRACTThe aim of this study was to identify the degree of correlation between quality of life at work (QVT) and personal lifestyle (EV) among physical education teachers. The sample, 1645 teachers, was selected in three phases. The first phase divided southern Brazil into federal states. The second subdivided each state into mesoregions and the third considered individual regional teaching centers. Data collection used questionnaires to evaluate QVT and EV. The single group Chi-square Test was used to establish discrepancies of opinion and behavior and the Spearman Test to evaluate correlations between the investigated variables, with a significance level of 5%. The results showed that the teachers are unsatisfied with salaries, working conditions, social integration and available leisure time; also revealed poor diet and stress control and limited personal physical activity. Evidence to support an association between specific concerns and socio-environmental position was insufficient to establish correlations between QVT and EV.