Optimismo disposicional y satisfacción laboral en desmovilizados de la Ciudad de Barranquilla –Colombia: Una aproximación desde la investigación para la Paz.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study dispositional optimism and job satisfaction from an approach to research for peace. In the presence of conflicts throughout history and conceived from a negative conception; The Research for Peace and the contemporary panorama pose a transformative and / or regulatory vision, which translates into opportunities for people in the Reintegration scenarios. The sample of the present work is composed by 50 demobilized persons belonging to the process of the Colombian Agency for Reintegration (ACR) in the Metropolitan area of the city of Barranquilla. It is a quantitative, descriptive and correlational study. For the investigation, the participants were asked to fill out the general data collection form, the Dispositional Optimism Scale for adults and the Occupational Satisfaction Scale (WES 10). In the results of the research it was found that 66% of the population scored dispositional optimism which indicates a positive vision in relation to their life and the attitude toward it. For the labor satisfaction variable, the result of the sample was evenly distributed between high and low satisfaction. The Pearson correlation coefficient was obtained, - 0.066, with a bilateral significance of 0.649, for the variables dispositional optimism and job satisfaction; According to this it can be concluded that there is no relationship between these variables, which confirms that the scores of each scale are independent. In order to determine the existence of a relationship between dispositional optimism and some general variables, the Chi-square Test operation was applied to identify dependency relations. The results showed a correlation with the degree of schooling.