Pleasure and Suffering at Work: A diagnosis study about workers that practice sky-diving in leisure time

Abstract

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 lived elements was elaborated. Results showed that those workers experience more pleasure than suffering in the work context.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v24i1.300