Adaptação transcultural de uma medida de fatores de absenteísmo para a realidade brasileira

Abstract

Labor absenteeism is characterized by the absence of an employee from his labor activities. The concept has a macro- organizational property, when analyzing the general index of labor absenteeism of an organization, and micro organizational when analyzing the index of absenteeism of a specific individual and the individual motivations for its occurrence. It is described as a complex phenomenon due to the number of antecedent variables that relate to the theme. Despite the importance of the theme, since it can have an impact on the productivity and costs of an organization, no instruments on labor absenteeism validated for the Brazilian population were found. The objective of this dissertation was the accomplishment of a transcultural adaptation of a scale of labor absenteeism, originally validated for the Portuguese population. The theoretical procedures of the semantic adaptation of the instrument counted on the collaboration of ten judges specialized in Psychology. There were two data collections, the first was performed virtually and counted on 227 participants from different states of the country, their data were used for the exploratory factorial analysis. For the confirmatory analysis, the data collection had 202 participants and was held in person in the city of Urua?u- GO. All the participants were formally employed at the time of the data collection. The results supported the validation of the scale with a = 0.91.