Satisfacción familiar, apoyo familiar y conflicto trabajo-familia en una muestra de trabajadores chilenos

Se analiza la relación existente entre satisfacción familiar, apoyo familiar y conflicto trabajo-familia en una muestra de trabajadores del comercio mayorista chileno, controlando variables sociodemográficas. A 128 trabajadores técnicos y profesionales entre 20 y 49 años, pertenecientes a dos ciudades ubicadas en la región del Maule (Chile) le fueron aplicados tres instrumentos de medición de las variables referidas. Se observa que tanto el apoyo familiar como la satisfacción familiar son variables que se encuentran relacionadas (r= 0,470; p=0,001), por tanto se pueden utilizar en conjunto y ambas se ven a su vez relacionadas con el conflicto trabajo-familia. Al realizar el estudio de regresión se obtuvo que apoyo familiar y satisfacción familiar son predictores del conflicto trabajo-familia (β= -0,386; t[91]= -4,698; p<0,001), relacionándose significativa y negativamente con el conflicto trabajo-familia (r= -0,684; p=0,001), es decir, que a mayores niveles de apoyo y satisfacción familiar, menores son los niveles de conflicto trabajo-familia.

Evaluation of effectiveness of the project ‘Caring caregivers of persons in disability situation’. Bogotá - second semester of 2007

The present paper presents the results of a transversal descriptive study which intended to estimate the contribution of the project “Caring for those who take care of people with disabilities” in the areas of: strength of personal and group competences, self care, life project, dexterity in the care process of people with disabilities, and communitarian auto management; that was implemented in 20 urban areas with caregivers of the city of Bogota in the year 2007. The study allowed the nresearches to acknowledge the little change perception that caregivers had in terms of self care, however, the caregivers perceived change in the four areas, although this were not statistically significant in comparison with the general population. There were only significant changes in the communitarian auto management area in 30% of the population. As a result, it is proposed that more extensive, continuous, and sustainable processes are implemented and that this process arises from contention spaces which can be created with the caregivers, from which they can be motivated to participate in other ´processes of collective and individual changes. Also there’s a need to rely on facilitators (professionals and change agents) who have stronger competences on the how to be and the how to interact competences, because there’s a need to manage the psychosocial components in this group of people. Also, we must make organizational processes and the social networks stronger, this is: collective actions are required, because disability is a social fact, and so, the individual issues are just a moment in the process of inclusion of the person with disability, his family and caregiver.