El trabajo juvenil y la calidad de vida en la ciudad de palermo

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between working condition and quality of life, in other word show the working quality affects the psyco-physic approach directly on our own personal life. Making a distinction between independent and dipendent work, we want to evaluate how the work influences the main socio relational aspects, like for example the behavior towards working activity, time organization, free time using, relationship with money, the attitudes and values passed down by the family about the work. Ad adiuvandum, to understand how the social context can influence this constructive process, we choose for the first time to focus this research in the socio-economic scenery of a large city of the South of Italy, the city of Palermo and its province. Method: The research participants are people between 20 and 35 years old, living in Palermo and its province, to whom have been given 200 questionnaires with open and closed questions as wellas the empowerment scale. The subjects who have answered to the questionnaire and empowerment scale have been divided in two macro groups: independent and dependent workers. To analyse these data we have used the following criteria: content analysis, frequency calculation, Chi-square test andvariance analysis. Results: According to the questionnaires results, we are surprised by homogeneous data related to some formulated hipotesis, while different results are confirmed in the two groups concerning other hipotesis. Conclusions: This research, partially confirms the ipotesis stated at the beginning: the data show how the research participants jobs affect some principal aspects contained in the investigation areas A, B, E, while the hipotesis of Investigation area C and D are not fully confirmed. In the light of these considerations, It is possible to underline one of the essential hipotesis of this research: the direct connection between work, expectations and quality of life.