Perspectiva profissional em psicologia: um estudo sobre formação, autoeficácia e empatia

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Roberta Camara Rocha
• Orientador(a): Santos, Elder Cerqueira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social
• Palavras-chave em Português: Psicólogos; Psicologia - Perspectiva profissional; Psicologia - Formação profissional; Psicologia clínica; Psicologia - Mercado de trabalho; Psicologia clínica - Formação profissional; Formação em psicologia
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Clinical psychology; Labor market; Occupational training; Psychologists
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/5928

This research deals with the relationship between self-efficacy, empathy and training in clinical psychology to understand how these variables influence the job prospects in this area of conclusive students of Psychology. The survey was conducted online to have the answers of psychology students from public and private institutions who were attending the last year of graduation, ie the 9th or 10th period. The survey instrument was composed of two questionnaires adapted and two standardized scales. The questionnaires adapted for this study has developed or adapted from the literature that address the training in clinical psychology at the undergraduate as well as questions addressing the prospect of future career in Psychology and Clinical Psychology items. Participants 199 students, 23.5 % were male and 76.5 % female, 15 Brazilian states and aged between 19 and 56 years. The average age for the total sample was 25.5 years (SD = 5.73). The results indicate that those with higher self-efficacy in higher education tend to have higher professional perspective in Clinical Psychology (t = -3.30, p = 0.00). As for empathy, the group with greater empathy showed greater job prospect in Clinical Psychology ( t = -2.78 , p = 0.00) and , regarding the evaluation of training, the group evaluated the best training in Clinical Psychology presented also greater job prospect in Clinical Psychology ( t = -7.34 , p = 0.00) . A linear regression analysis showed that job prospects in Clinical Psychology presents as significant predictors of the student´s age, self-efficacy assessment in higher education and training in Clinical Psychology, with explained variance of 38.4 % ( R ² = 0.384 ). Predictors showed older participants with higher self-efficacy in the education and training that best assessed in Clinical Psychology with a greater weight to the variance explained about the job prospects in Clinical Psychology .