Jovem em situação de desemprego: habilidades sociais e bem-estar psicológico

Abstract

Aiming at researching the relation between social skills and psychological well-being of unemployed young adults, two investigations were developed. The first one was a quantitative descriptive and correlational investigation and the second was a qualitative research. In the first study 232 young adults, aged between 18 and 24 years old (M = 20; DP = 2), participated. Out of these, 50,4% were male and 49,6%, female. Unemployment period varied between 6 and 48 months, with an average of 9,56, which includaded 53,4% of the subjects having resigned from their jobs. Three instruments were employed: a sociodemographic questionnaire, a social skills inventory (Inventário de Habilidades Sociais – IHS) and the General Health Questionnaire – GHQ 12. The data analysis showed a significant correlation between social skills and psychological well-being (r + -0,17, p <0,05) indicating that among the unemployed youngs, that the higher the index of social skills is the most level of health. The factors that may raise the t