Lives Of Working People Research Articles

Partners in lockdown: Relationship stress in men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically affected people's lives and relationships. On March 13, 2020, the Belgian government issued lockdown measures which constrained most people's work and social life to the confines of their own home. For couples who lived together, being locked down together potentially placed a lot of stress on their relationship. As relationship stress can have detrimental (mental) health outcomes, it is important to identify which relationship aspects were particularly stressful during the pandemic lockdown. The present study aimed to investigate whether perceived relationship stress about five specific relationship aspects (i.e., conflict, diverging attitudes, restrictions, less connectedness, and neglect) differed before and during the lockdown, and between men and women. We conducted an online survey study among 2,889 respondents between April 3 and 17, 2020. A total of 1,491 respondents (76.3% female, Mage = 41.23) lived together full-time with their partner at the time. Our findings indicate that during the lockdown, women experienced more relationship stress than men because of conflict and diverging attitudes within their relationship. Furthermore, both men and women experienced more stress during the lockdown than before because they felt restricted in their relationship. Lastly, women reported significantly more perceived relationship stress during the pandemic lockdown compared to before because of conflicts they experienced within their relationship. Our findings provide important information for policymakers and health-care professionals to help couples who endure relationship hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown or in possibly similar situations in future crises. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Application of wireless sensor network in remote medical monitoring system

In today's social development system, people have begun to pursue more and more physical health and quality of life materials under the wave of economic development. In people's daily work and study life, medical and health care services are an important part of people's physical health. People need to ensure their physical and mental health to improve their quality of life. In many areas, the development level of medical technology is not very high, but information technology and computer network technology have brought people a new development model. The development of telemedicine has solved the problem of backward medical technology in remote areas and created more for people. Safe medical environment. In the context of the development of the new era, the development of wireless sensor technology has gradually enriched the construction of the telemedicine system. This article analyzes the relevant principles of wireless sensor network connection to study and design a system that can realize remote medical control and monitoring. To design a new medical monitoring system, you need to apply sensor technology and wireless sensor network technology. This article studies the specific conditions of these two technologies, and confirms the reliability of the new system in daily life through actual analysis.

Locked Down Together: Determinants of Verbal Partner Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The global spread of the coronavirus has drastically impacted people's lives. Due to governmental lockdown measures, most people's work and social life were suddenly confined to their own home. For partners who lived together, this could put serious strain on their relationship, which could result in conflicts and violence. In this study, we aimed to identify which groups of people particularly experienced verbal partner violence during the pandemic lockdown, and how stress regarding the COVID-19 pandemic played a role in the occurrence of partner conflicts. Through an online survey, which was distributed through online (social) media channels, we gathered data from 2889 people in Flanders, of which 1491 people lived together with their partner during the lockdown. We found that partner violence during the lockdown particularly occurred among women; younger age groups; students; people whose partner was long-term unemployed or was (temporarily) unemployed due to the pandemic; parents of children younger than 18 years; people without the ability to seclude themselves from other members of the household; and people with less personal contacts. In addition, higher levels of stress about the COVID-19 pandemic itself and lower levels of stress about potential coronavirus infection were associated with more partner violence during the lockdown. These findings provide important information for policy makers and health professionals, offering guidance to direct greater resources in prevention and intervention efforts towards higher risk individuals and groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Role of Cooperatives for Sustainable Livelihood in Bagmati Province, Nepal

The study aims in analyzing the role of cooperatives for sustainable livelihood of people in Bagmati Province (3), in Nepal. Cooperatives areconsidered to be the third pillar of Nepalese economy. The ongoing literature suggests that the cooperative movements have relationship with quality of work life of people and poverty reduction. Nepal is developing her future prosperity and growth. Hence, the study has pointed out the gap in the literature and the practice. The descriptive and analytical research designs have been adopted in the study. The secondary source has been used to collect the data. The MS Excel Software has been used to tabulate and analyze the data. The study found that the cooperative movement is more prone in Bagmati and Gandaki Province that resulted decrease in poverty rate and the increase in the employment rate. The activities of the cooperatives in the investment in share, saving, lending and employment creation hadcontributed in the sustainable livelihood of people in Bagmati Province, Nepal. .

Interculturality and social skills? Relationships of the stays abroad of students of different faculties with intercultural and social competence

AbstractPossessing skills in social and intercultural interaction is vitally important for employees who work in globalized environments, especially as people's working lives tend to involve an increasingly large amount of service‐related activities. As a consequence, universities offer cultural studies courses and strive to enable their students to study abroad for a period of time. However, there is still no widely shared agreement on how intercultural experiences and cultural preparation courses predict the perception, thinking and acting of individuals. Therefore, the study at hand uses a cross‐sectional design with N = 430 participants in order to investigate whether students of cultural studies gain more intercultural competencies during the time spent studying abroad, compared to studies of other subjects. The results reveal that students of cultural subjects show significantly higher levels of cultural empathy and openness in the post hoc measurement, even though there was no interaction effect with the amount of time spent studying abroad. Length of stay abroad had a significant indirect effect on social competence via all the dimensions of the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire. Moreover, results indicate that flexibility to adapt one's behaviour to cultural norms may predict problems when returning to one's home country.

How Social Media Use at Work Affects Improvement of Older People's Willingness to Delay Retirement During Transfer From Demographic Bonus to Health Bonus: Causal Relationship Empirical Study.

BackgroundWith the increased older population in China and the subsequent reduced labor force, the “demographic bonus” is disappearing. The Chinese government proposed a Healthy China strategy in 2017. The transfer of the demographic bonus to a “health bonus” extended the working life of people and reduced the negative impact of the population’s aging on the labor force structure.ObjectiveThis research focuses on the effect of older workers’ social media usage at work on their work ability (related to both physical and mental health) and thus their willingness to delay retirement.MethodsThe questionnaire respondents were older than 55 years, and they obtained the questionnaire from social media, from June to July 2018. A total of 1020 valid questionnaires were collected, and SmartPLS 3.28 (SmartPLS GmbH) was used to analyze the data. Effects were analyzed using 2-tailed t tests.Results(1) Use of social media at work can improve information support (t14=13.318, P<.001), emotional support (t14=13.184, P<.001), and self-efficacy (t14=6.364, P<.001) for older people; (2) information support is the main factor affecting the self-efficacy of older workers (t14=23.304, P<.001), as compared with emotional support (t14=1.799, P=0.07); (3) the impacts of emotional support on work ability (t14=8.876, P<.001) and work stress (t14=9.545, P<.001) are generally higher than those of information support (t14=4.394, P<.001; t14=5.002, P<.001); (4) self-efficacy has an impact on work ability (t14=5.658, P<.001) and work stress (t14=4.717, P<.001); and (5) the impacts of work ability (t14=8.586, P<.001) and work stress (t14=8.579, P<.001) on retirement willingness are greater than those of emotional support (t14=2.112, P=.04) and information support (t14=4.314, P<.001).ConclusionsOur study confirms that the use of social media at work has a positive impact on older workers. Based on the findings, we have put forward proposals to extend people’s working lives and help governments implement health bonus policies. In the future, we will compare the different values of willingness to delay retirement among older people in different occupations and different cultures.

REACTIONS OF SMALL TO MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN MASVINGO, ZIMBABWE TO COVID 19: IMPLICATIONS ON PRODUCTIVITY

The COVID 19 pandemic has had a significant impact on livelihoods; the virus has affected not only the health sector but the work life of people as the government instituted measures to contain the spread of the virus. This study sought to explore how SMEs in Masvingo, Zimbabwe were affected by a government declared lockdown. In particular, the study sought to establish how the SMEs responded to the lockdown, the strategies that they instituted and the implications of the lockdown on the productivity of the SMEs. A qualitative approach was adopted specifically adopting the descriptive case study approach as a research methodology. Ten participants who participated in this study were conveniently selected from 7 purposively selected SMEs in Masvingo town. Indepth interviews were used for data collection. Results indicated that SMEs were negatively affected by the lockdown. Most of them stopped operations and had to lay off some of their employees. Production in most cases was halted and this entailed that the future after the lockdown was bleak for them. The SMEs appealed for government support to enable them to resuscitate after the lockdown.

Barcelona, 1978–1980

Barcelona, 1978–1980 Patrick Kehoe (bio) My Barcelona is a kind of pre-lapsarian one in my own eyes, a pre-lapsarian, pre-budget flight city. In 1980 there occurred the "lapse" of sorts—or should that be the lapse "out of sorts"?—when I finally left the city after two years. Thus concluded a shiftless, insecure period of living with little money, in flats and small hotels. I was obliged to lodge too far from the city at one point early on, feeling removed from the action in the small town of Sant Cugat. Situated due northwest of the teeming city, Sant Cugat was a provincial town, about an hour's train ride from Barcelona. The place was evolving into the much bigger dormitory town it would eventually be in years to come. There was nothing there for a young Irishman, interested in craic, distraction, or finding women who might be "asked out," as the phrase of the times had it. June 1980 saw the end of the English classes I taught sometimes early in the morning, in the long stretches of the afternoon, or late at night. It had been an erratic pattern, shoehorned around people's working lives or children's afterschool hours. I still think of the underground trains that got me around, that dusty, trapped smell in the air when you stepped down the stairs in Fontana, Hospitalet, or Entenza. The carriages were not the soundless, clean-fuel trains of today. Where are the working men in the short-sleeved shirts reeking of garlic and black tobacco, hanging from the handrail, exuding decent sweat? Their places have been taken by tourists and visitors from every country you could imagine. To discount that pre-lapsarian theme a bit, one, of course, could not compare my Barcelona experience to Eden. However, memory and imagination are great mood enhancers. There was, in any case, something of Eden about the city anyway, and a sense of banishment, anguish, and strangeness when it was time to go. I was going back to Ireland; I was back where I started with what I thought at the time was little to show for it. A new poem of mine, which features in the current edition of Cyphers magazine, is simply called "Banishment." I left the city voluntarily, sure, but I sometimes feel that the city banished me for reasons that need not be gone into. Banishment or not—and the usage has featured in previous poems, like a thorn—the city has stayed in my mind, coming and going faithfully, obsessively. [End Page 151] Its presence has, for a decade or more of recent poetry writing, been like a vast net. I have been seeking memory fish that have circulated in the net of my imagination, captured in the mesh of the poems. I remember weekend nights on the town in a city that, despite its iconoclastic air of kicking against the post-Francoist traces, seemed provincial. At that period, the tourists generally came only between May and October. During the other months, the city seemed to draw in and recover its jaunty, brazen spirit. I remember in particular walking down Calle Pelayo one weekend night in spring, feeling an air of anticipation, a sense of heat in the pavement slabs, the sultry evening opening out, the prospect of company further on. Making my way down the Ramblas, to eventually cut off into a side street and meet a few friends at one of the bars, Paraguas or El Portalón. To proceed on later maybe to other nightspots, the nightclub Celeste, those evenings almost erased now, just the vaguest glimmer of being young and active and busy-minded. My poems try to celebrate where we stood, laughed, drank, sang. Or they attempt to fill the gaps and seat us few Irishmen again on empty benches or chairs. None of us were writers; I had given up poetry during that period, although I tried to learn flamenco guitar at a music school. I still have that lightweight guitar, smelling hopefully still of rosewood and cedar. I recall my teacher Luis Verdú, who came originally from Córdoba in Andalucia. Luis, a kindly...

WORKING ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ON THE LATVIAN LABOR MARKET GROWTH IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR

Increasing participation of the elderly people in the labor market has significant potential to reduce the demographic burden. People who want to stay in the labor market longer and are physically fit to work longer should create the conditions for these opportunities. Research is needed to discover these options. Extending people's working lives depends on many factors. One of them is a working environment that is specific to each sector and different in each company. The aim of this research is to study the impact of some working environment factors on people's decision to work in retirement age in the education sector. This topic has not been sufficiently studied in Latvia yet. Express surveys and the survey methods were used for self-assessment of the impact of the working environment on people's decision to stay in the labor market longer. The developed proposals concern to creation of career support strategies for the elderly employeed. It will be able to promote the growth of labor market potential in Latvia in the education sector.

Design of high pressure vessels using Aspen HYSYS blowdown analysis

This work deals with the safety of high-pressure vessels by blowdown analysis in oil and gas industry using Aspen HYSYS simulation tool. During the design of high pressure vessel API 521 standards are implemented. The required parameters governing the depressurisation technique and the selection of thermodynamics property package, heat transfer model selection are explained. All physically significant effects of the process which governs the safety of the high-pressure vessel are predicted. These findings are highly useful in the safe design of high-pressure vessels in oil and gas industry. The predicted results are also useful in the selection of the material of construction and reduce the cost and reduce the risk of failure of the equipment. This work guarantees the life of people working in the industry and reduces the process equipment cost and environmental problems. This work is useful to process design engineers and safety engineers in mitigating the chemical disasters in oil and gas industries.

‘We had to be off by sundown’: Narungga contributions to farming industries on Yorke Peninsula (Guuranda), South Australia

Aboriginal peoples around Australia have played a significant role in the establishment and development of many of the country's successful agricultural industries. Despite this, Australian rural histories rarely acknowledge or celebrate Aboriginal people's labour as an important contributing factor in the prosperity of agricultural ventures. This lack of recognition is often symptomatic of more widespread absences that exist within Australian historical discourse regarding Aboriginal people's working lives since European colonisation. These absences are often at their most pronounced in rural areas, where there has been a strong desire to erase any contrary evidence that could undermine 'the pioneer success story' or challenge the idea of European settlers as anything other than guileless agents engaged in 'a struggle over adversity that became the foundation stone of nation building'. Increasingly, however, these mediated absences are being contested as a greater emphasis is placed on documenting and including Aboriginal people's historic and lived experiences within farming and pastoral industries around the country. One of the objectives of these studies has been to highlight how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people's lives are often entangled, helping to negate narratives that presuppose Aboriginal people's exclusion and separation from greater Australian working life.4 Finding ways to accurately represent the specificities of these cross-cultural 'entanglements' in appropriate ways for both cultural groups has been an ongoing challenge.

Identity construction and participation in work: Learning from the experiences of persons with psychiatric disability

Background In this article constructions of identity, occupation, and performance are explored with a particular focus on the interrelatedness of these concepts. Insights were derived from a study in which the influences that impact on the work-lives of people with a psychiatric disability were explored. Method An interpretive biography design was utilised. Data construction took the form of narrative interviews and a combination of paradigmatic narrative analysis and narrative analysis was used. Participants, selected by means of purposive maximum variation sampling, had been diagnosed with psychiatric impairment and lived in the Western Cape, South Africa. Findings and discussion Identity construction processes were explored, with a particular focus on how these impacted on decisions regarding participation in work. Conclusions Performance elements of identity, called forth by occupational demands, occurring within work environments were found to be shaped through, and expressed as, doing. The notion of Punctualized Identity was shown to provide a lens that is able to capture the dynamic interplay of identity constructs and provide a synthesised perspective on participation.

Europeans’ work and life – out of balance? An empirical test of assumptions from the “acceleration debate”

Advanced modernity is regarded as an era of time obsession and people in modernized societies seem to live harried lives. Leading time sociologists like Hartmut Rosa adopt a modernization–critical stance and ascribe an accelerated pace of life and frequent time scarcity to socioeconomic and technological advancement. According to these protagonists of the “acceleration debate,” time becomes increasingly precious due to severely changed conditions of work and private life. Against this background it can be assumed that many people may suffer from an unsatisfactory work–life balance. This study uses individual-level data from the fifth round of the European Social Survey (fielded in 2010/11) as well as suitable country-level data capturing key features of advanced modernity to empirically test assumptions arising from the “acceleration debate.” Results from multilevel analyses of 23 European countries provide some confirmation of these assumptions. While most macro indicators for 2010 reflecting a certain stage of development are uninfluential, a country's degree of globalization matters, and moreover growth rates of crucial macro indicators signaling paces of development exert an impact on people's work–life balance in the assumed direction: In countries with accelerations in terms of economic development, coverage of households with internet access and numbers of new cars working people show a significantly greater inclination toward an unsatisfactory work–life balance. Aside from results at the country-level individual-level determinants and group-specific differences of work–life balance under different conditions of advanced modernity are presented. This study's two main findings—(1) paces of development matter more than stages of development and (2) assumptions arising from the “acceleration debate” receive some empirical support—are thoroughly reflected on and discussed.

Mobile cloud computing in 5G: Emerging trends, issues, and challenges [Guest Editorial

Mobile computing, wireless networks, and cloud computing are three technologies that are converging into a rapidly growing field of Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). With the dramatically increased capacities of the 5th generation (5G) mobile networks, MCC services are expected to witness a period of rapid development and become a new hotspot of mobile services. It is anticipated that people's work patterns and life styles in a future networked society will be dramatically changed by MCC. IBM predicts that there will be 1 trillion cloud-ready devices by 2015, and most Internet users will work primarily through cyberspace-based applications on remote servers accessed through networked devices. Through future applications enabled by 5G, MCC will have profound impacts on almost every aspect of our future digital lives.

Inner work life: understanding the subtext of business performance

Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days--and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups and downs are unknown. Most managers simply shrug their shoulders at this fact of work life. But does it matter, in terms of performance, if people have more good days than bad days? Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer's new stream of research, based on more than 12,000 diary entries logged by knowledge workers over three years, reveals the dramatic impact of employees' inner work lives--their perceptions, emotions, and motivation levels--on several dimensions of performance. People perform better when their workday experiences include more positive emotions, stronger intrinsic motivation (passion for the work), and more favorable perceptions of their work, their team, their leaders, and their organization. What the authors also found was that managers' behavior dramatically affects the tenor of employees' inner work lives. So what makes a difference to inner work life? When the authors compared the study participants' best days to their worst days, they found that the single most important differentiator was their sense of being able to make progress in their work. The authors also observed interpersonal events working in tandem with progress events. Praise without real work progress, or at least solid efforts toward progress, had little positive impact on people's inner work lives and could even arouse cynicism. On the other hand, good work progress without any recognition--or, worse, with criticism about trivial issues--could engender anger and sadness. Far and away, the best boosts to inner work life were episodes in which people knew they had done good work and their managers appropriately recognized that work.

Multiple Sclerosis and Work: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Perspective of Persons with Early Stage MS

Abstract Objective:This study explores the lived experience in their working lives of people with early stage multiple sclerosis (MS). Method: Ten people at various stages in their careers (applying, employed, recently retired) who had been diagnosed with early stage MS were interviewed in open, in depth interviews. Transcriptions were analysed following a phenomenological approach. Results: Six themes were found: the tiresome process of adjustment, inventing ways to do your work, feeling hurt about how others see your illness avoiding applying for jobs, embracing retirement, and mourning over lost work. Instead of relating these findings to mainstream theories that presuppose rather than investigate subjectivity (coping, selfmanagement, skills), we generalize these findings by relating them to the psychodynamic model of work of Christophe Dejours. This model is a clinical theory that offers an account of the relations between subjectivity, work, and action. Conclusion: Current models of management and vocational rehabilitation maintain individual/group and body/mind dichotomies that don’t exist in the lived experience of work and rehabilitation of people with MS. It is recommended that professionals offering supervision or vocational services to employees with early stage MS or other chronic conditions relativize these models while offering professional help, and that they revitalize the art of listening as an act of inclusion and acknowledgement.

A Study on Changing Work Environment in Manufacturing Industries and its Impact on Employees’ Private Life and Productivity in Work Place

The focus of this study is identity change – how we adapt our personality and behaviour as we make the shift from home to the workplace. It seems the majority of us are comfortable with the idea of maintaining separate work and private identities. But for some, the switch is so complete as to cause real tensions, and to have a detrimental effect on their satisfaction and performance both at work and at home. This study strives to raise the discussion a level above the usual work–life balance debates around time devoted to work and private lives – and brings a fresh perspective on a subject that is close to our hearts. Our goal is to make balancing the demands – and rewards – of people's work and private lives as simple as possible through technology. But we are also aware that modern communications technology has the ability to invade and encroach, as well as to involve and empower. This study will go some way to building our understanding of people's needs and expectations as the modern workplace evolves to become more open and flexible.

Mobile Distance Learning with Smartphones and Apps in Higher Education

AbstractIn this paper, the results of researcher' ongoing activities regarding the use of smartphones and a specific subject-app used at the Spanish National of Distance Education (UNED) have been reported. The purpose of this trial is to assess the app's didactic use and potential to enhance student learning in university subjects in ubiquitous environments and developing generic competencies according to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). To this end, a scale has been developed and validated to identify these factors based on the participation of 388 students from the class Curriculum design and innovation within the University Degree in Pedagogy program. This study has been developed through two perspectives; the first being through a descriptive methodology in which the current researcher has detailed the creation process of an app. The second perspective being through a quantitative methodology in which students' perceptions regarding the capabilities of smartphones and apps for improving learning processes in university subjects were assessed. The conclusions indicate that the use of apps developed specifically for following university subjects is highly valued by students as a new format which both supports and enhances learning practices while also providing not only further opportunities to establish connections and relations with their subjects, but also fostering collaborative work among students and professors. Therefore, it is recommended that universities continue developing new didactic strategies to connect both formal-informal and face-to-face ubiquitous learning settings.KeywordsApps, Distance Education, Generic Competencies, Higher Education, mLearning, Smartphones.Smartphones and other mobile digital devices, such as tablets, can be surprisingly useful didactic resources for developing subjects in both distance and face-to-face university studies. They may, moreover, be used as an instrument conducive to educational and personal interaction, fostering relationships between students and their professors (Bedall-Hill, 2010; Chayko, 2008; Franklin, 2011; Johnson, Adams Beker, Estrada, & Freeman, 2014; Oulasvirta, Wahlstrom, & Ericsson, 2011; UNESCO, 2013). Both traditional and new ways of teaching based on Learning Management Systems (LMS) and educational platforms developed by universities can be enhanced by the use of personalized apps which can be used in a collaborative way to develop curricular content. They may also be used to improve new ways of developing generic and specific competencies of university degrees within the framework of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).Nowadays, students experience digital environments in a very tactile and personal way through a wide variety of mobile devices (i.e., smartphones and tablets) whose uses can be converted into collaborative learning practices. Smartphones are increasingly becoming ever- present, penetrating and transforming everyday social practices and space. These practices can be complemented with text documents in different formats, audiovisual contents with mini-videos, microblogging applications, and social networks (Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, etc.). Smartphones are no longer only a tool for communication, but in many cases have become an instrument of people's social and work life, and possibly, a powerful instrument in academic life. Therefore, middle and higher education in developed and developing countries are now trying to adopt the use of smartphones in the learning process from different perspectives and teaching methods (Johnson et al., 2014; UNESCO, 2013).Looking at the wider context of mobile learning, mobile devices are responsible for new forms of art, employment, language, commerce, and learning. Nowadays, there is no separation between real and digital life: staying in online contact with friends and colleagues, working virtually on international projects, writing an online text, or researching recommendations for interesting locations nearby; digital communication enriches the real world (Eteokleous & Ktoridou, 2009; Norris, Hossain, & Soloway, 2011). …

Personality across working life: The longitudinal and reciprocal influences of personality on work

SummaryThis paper focuses on the role of personality at different stages of people's working lives. We begin by reviewing the research in industrial, work, and organizational (IWO) psychology regarding the longitudinal and dynamic influences of personality as an independent variable at different career stages, structuring our review around a framework of people's working lives and careers over time. Next, we review recent studies in the personality and developmental psychology domain regarding the influence of changing life roles on personality. In this domain, personality also serves as a dependent variable. By blending these two domains, it becomes clear that the study of reciprocal effects of work and personality might open a new angle in IWO psychology's long‐standing tradition of personality research. To this end, we outline various implications for conceptual development (e.g., trait stability) and empirical research (e.g., personality and work incongruence). Finally, we discuss some methodological and statistical considerations for research in this new research domain. In the end, our review should enrich the way that IWO psychologists understand personality at work, focusing away from its unidirectional predictivist influence on job performance toward a more complex longitudinal reciprocal interplay of personality and working life. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Road transport and the life of working people: a descriptive study

Trata-se de um projeto de dissertacao para o Mestrado Academico em Ciencias do Cuidado em Saude, teorizacao de saberes e praticas do cuidado. Objetivos: compreender os impactos causados na saude do sujeito que trabalha no transporte coletivo (onibus) com enfase na visao dos motoristas acerca da qualidade de vida; interpretar o que o motorista de onibus considera como “qualidade de vida” aplicavel a rotina dele; propor medidas que resgatem a qualidade de vida do sujeito rodoviario. Metodo: pesquisa de campo nao experimental, do tipo descritiva e abordagem qualitativa, realizada no leste fluminense do Rio de Janeiro. Serao realizadas entrevistas, em novembro e dezembro de 2013, tendo como alvo 250 motoristas de onibus, por meio de um roteiro semiestruturado. Os dados serao tratados com enfase na fenomenologia com base na teoria de Maurice Merleau-Ponty e teoria freudiana.