Resumen

BECQUER, Aime Margarita de la Hoz; HINDRICHS, Imke  y  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 31-Mayo-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.

Palabras clave : Sense of work; meaning of work; self-employment; professionals.

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