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ABROAD.
COMPARATIVE STUDY
Student: Bianca Nadia Jecan
Key words: Romanian employee abroad, self-esteem, social and emotional solitude, works
The life satisfaction is defined as representing the subjective condition resulting from
the fruition of needs, the lack of tensions, anxiety (Zamfir, C. in Zamfir and Vlasceanu
coord., 1993). If we refer to the life satisfaction, we notice the multivocal feature of this
concept, meaning that on one hand, it is used as a general indicator of subjective welfare, on
the other hand, it is only a component (its cognitive part)(Bltescu, 2003). The satisfaction
measurement is also realized by using a broad palette of indicators regarding the actual life
aspects (job satisfaction, life and family satisfaction, satisfaction in respect to the material
level, satisfaction in respect to the spare time, etc., Veenhoven, 1989).
The social and emotional loneliness is an exhausting condition from the emotional
point of view, inhibiting within the interpersonal relationships and which makes you to fall
back from the psychological point of view. When we feel alone, our thoughts can be distorted
and thus we can have exaggerated reactions to certain events in life which, in other situations,
we would take more easier (Booth, 1996). Sociologists have always seen the personal
relationships as a binder of the society. When a society is made of isolated members, it is
meant to be broken. As the estrangement, the increased rate of divorces and the criminality,
the loneliness is seen by certain people as a cause or as a symptom of the social breakdown.
(Perlman & Peplau, 1982).
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programs within the hierarchy of the companies, the existing deficiencies in respect to the
delegation of responsibilities from managers, the non-recognition, by employees, of the
purpose of their work (http://www.rasfoiesc.com/business/management/resurse-
umane/STUDIU-DE-CAZ-AIFER-ROMANIA-MO64.php).
The filling of the survey form by the participants was realized in their pauses from
work for a duration of 15 minutes. The survey forms were presented to the participants and
the way of answer for each scale was explained to them, and also the purpose of this survey.
Each participant was asked to be sincere in his answers, being ensured of its confidentiality.
The first objective of the study was that to intercept differences depending on the statute of
emigrant or non-emigrant in respect to the variations related to the professional field such as:
work satisfaction, self-realization through profession and the highlighting of some
correlations of these indicators only in case of Romanians from Diaspora.
In respect to the analysis of differences regarding the work satisfaction, F(91,77) = 4.53 has
an insignificant value from the statistical point of view, which means that there are no
significant differences regarding the work satisfaction between the Romanians from Diaspora
and those who are working in Romania on the samples included in the study.
In order to check if there are significant differences only between the Romanians from
Diaspora, depending on the years of service had in the foreign territory, in respect to the work
satisfaction, I have applied the test for independent samples. The higher value than the critical
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threshold of .05 allows us to say that there are no significant differences depending on the
years of service had in the foreign territory. The result is rendered in the Table 1.
Table 1.Test t for realizing the comparison in respect to the work satisfaction depending
on the years of service of Romanians from Diaspora.
Df F P
Work satisfaction 44 1.27 .29
We have checked if the period of time spent on foreign territory could influence the feeling of
self-realization through profession. The results are given below and they have no statistical
significance.
Table 2.Test t for realizing the comparison between the Romanians from Diaspora in
respect to the self-realization through profession, depending on the duration of the
emigrant statute
Df F P
Self-realization through 44 .11 .89
profession
In order to check if there is a significant correlation between age and self-realization through
profession, the value of the statistical test ( r = .286, p=.05; ) shows that more he grows in
years, more increases the degree of self-realization through profession of the emigrant
Romanians. In turn, for non-emigrant Romanians, we notice that between age and self-
realization through profession there is no significant correlation ( r =-07, p=60).
The second objective of the research wants to intercept the existence of some differences
determined by emigration in order to occupy a job in respect to the social and emotional
loneliness aspect of the self-esteem.
In the first series of statistical analyses, the two samples were represented by Romanians
from Diaspora and by those established in Romania. The results of the comparative analysis
are given in the Table 3 and their interpretation suggests that there are no differences for any
variable included in the study.
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Table 3 Values of the test t on independent samples in order to analyse the differences
between the Romanians from Diaspora and those established in Romania.
F df1 df2 P
Social loneliness .184 91 88.527 .669
Emotional loneliness .845 91 88.329 .360
Self-esteem 3.483 91 79.981 .065
In order to check if there are specific differences between the Romanians from Diaspora and
the Romanians from Romania in respect to the life satisfaction, we have realized the
comparison rendered in the table 4.
Table 4 Comparative analysis of the life satisfaction degree between the emigrant and non-
emigrant Romanians
F df1 df2 P
Life satisfaction 4.539 91 77.687 .036
The significance threshold p. = .036 corresponding to F(91,77) = 4.53 is significant from the
statistical point of view, the analysis of environments showing that migrant Romanians have
a higher life satisfaction degree than the non-migrant Romanians?????
In the second series of statistical analyses related to this objective, I have selected only the
scores to the surveys realized for the Romanians from Diaspora in respect to the social and
emotional loneliness and we have comparatively analyzed these scores depending on their
family statute (alone or with the family). The results are given below and they have no
relevance from the statistical point of view.
Table 5 Values of the test t for social and emotional loneliness of Romanians from
Diaspora depending on their family statute
Df F P
Social loneliness 44 .782 .464
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