Abstract

BECQUER, Aime Margarita de la Hoz; HINDRICHS, Imke  and  PEREZ ALVAREZ, Luis. Senses and meanings attributed to self-employment by four psychology professionals in the Mexican context. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2023, vol.13, n.1, pp.35-43.  Epub May 31, 2023. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v13.n1.3.

The flexibilization and structural precariousness of work have led, among other workers, a group of psychology professionals to identify self-employment as a viable way of working in today's world. This experience has represented for them a performative activity, challenging them to reinvent continually themselves in order to adapt to changes in the labor market and transforming the sense and meanings they attribute to self-employment. With the objective to know and understand the sense and meaning attributed to work, the narratives and associations of four self-employed psychologists in Mexico were analyzed through a qualitative study. The results disclose the experiences of self-employment as an articulation between new freedoms and dependencies, which signify work for the participants and demystify some self-employment rhetoric. There is an urgent need for labor and educational policies to adjust to the actual realities of free professionals’ practice, not only in the field of psychology.

Keywords : Sense of work; meaning of work; self-employment; professionals.

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