Significados atribuidos a la dificultad de ubicarse laboralmente, su implicación emocional y sus estrategias de afrontamiento en un grupo de graduadas de psicología de la universidad Antonio Nariño

Abstract

The present research focuses on the narratives of a group of recent graduates of the psychology faculty of the Antonio Nariño University where they investigate the different coping strategies that were implemented to diminish the different emotions that are generated on the basis of this phenomenon, It also identifies the different meanings that are attributed to unemployment and the emotional implication that this brings to the person. In order to analyze the different compilations, a study was carried out in which 3 female graduates of the Antonio Nariño University of Psychology who have been unemployed for approximately 6 months. Narrative interviews were used to investigate the different experiences lived due to lack of work location, the narrations obtained by the participants were analyzed hermeneutically where the results indicate that instrumental strategies such as mass sending of resumes, different trainings were implemented, continuous training and strategies aimed at emotional control such as family support, meditation and even cognitive restructuring, re-significance of attributions related to the difficulty of employing. Finally, significant emotional components were found such as feelings of frustration, anguish and moments of crisis in the face of the difficulty of locating oneself in the workplace.