Il contributo del DSVP (Disegno dello spazio di vita professionale) allo studio delle identità professionali. Il caso di una casa circondariale

[Autom. eng. transl.] In recent years, several scholars have highlighted how the changes in the world of work that characterize the current era (Sennet, 1999; Bauman, 2000), put crisis in the processes of identity construction (Walsh and Gordon, 2008; Beech, 2008 ). We talk about weak or crisis-ridden job identities, which in organizational contexts that are constantly changing are struggling to identify grips and professional trajectories that facilitate identification processes. These paths find a particularly delicate and critical situation in the Italian penitentiary context, as highlighted by some specific research (see the contributions of the Istituto Superiore di Studi Penitenziari) both for the difficult type of user, and for the precarious organizational conditions ( overcrowding of prisoners, lack of staff, etc.). For this reason, numerous projects promoted by the Ministry of Justice are currently being developed to learn about the situation of workers and to promote organizational well-being within the penitentiary system. Within this scenario we find the present research work, developed within a Lombard district house that is experiencing a situation of unease due to a very strong overcrowding. The work aims to present the contribution that the tool of the Symbolic Design of the Professional Life Space (DSVP) can provide in the study of well-being / identity malaise, with particular reference to two types of professionals working in the district home. A total of 35 workers were involved, including inspectors and custodians. The DSVP, an adaptation of the individual version of the Family Life Space (Gozzoli and Tamanza, 2008), is a symbolic graphic tool aimed at capturing the representation that subjects have of their professional world, both in reference to the present and to the future prefiguration (5 /7 years). On these productions it is possible to carry out both a phenomenological-interpretative analysis of the representations, and a metric analysis through ad hoc software. The data coming from this instrument will be cross-checked and compared with those coming from other instruments concerning organizational life dimensions considered relevant in the study of work identification processes, to grasp aspects of congruence or dissonance: • the level of exhaustion / energy of the operators and their determinants (Organizational Checkup System (OCS), Leiter and Maslak, 2005), • the commitment and organizational progress (through the scales validated in Italian by Pierro and colleagues, 1992), • the degree of organizational trust (Italian adaptation of the Organizational Trust Inventory (OTI) by Vidotto and colleagues, 2006), • organizational solidarity (Reduced scale of organizational solidarity, Pepe and Avallone, 2003), • organizational conflict (adaptation of the Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory, Majer , 1995). Once the data collection phase is completed, the analysis is underway both at the phenomenological level, both metric (via SPSS) of the DSVPs, and the statistical analysis of the data coming from the scales mentioned above.