Work well-being and prosocial behavior in a sample of Bra-zilian workers

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Laila Leite Carneiro
Antônio Virgílio Bittencourt Bastos
Prosocial voice is as a proactive and positively oriented verbal behavior that the worker emits with the intent of promoting transformation that benefits the group or organization. Despite being a phe-nomenon widely studied in other countries, in Brazil there are few researches dedicated to this phe-nomenon. Supported by the literature gap and driven by the Positive Psychology perspective, the aim of this study was to describe how prosocial voice behaviors (PSV) are manifested in different Brazili-an workers. Additionally, we sought to analyze the predictive power of well-being at work on these behaviors. From the application of scales to a sample of 360 Brazilian workers, descriptive, correla-tion and linear regression analyzes were conducted. Results shows that some occupational variables, as well as individual variables interfere with the frequency of PSV issuance. Besides, the better a worker feels about his work, the more likely he is to engage in PSV behaviors.

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Leite Carneiro, Laila; and Bittencourt Bastos, Antônio Virgílio. “Work well-being and prosocial behavior in a sample of Bra-zilian workers”. Quaderns de psicologia. International journal of psychology, vol.VOL 22, no. 1, p. e1583, doi:10.5565/rev/qpsicologia.1583.
Author Biographies

Laila Leite Carneiro, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Psychologist, PhD in Organizational and Work Psychology, Associate Professor at Federal University of Bahia

Antônio Virgílio Bittencourt Bastos, Universidade Federal da Bahia

Psychologist, PhD in Organizational and Work Psychology, Full Professor at Federal University of Bahia