Felicidade interna bruta: percepções de um grupo de acadêmicos da Universidade Federal do Tocantins-UFT

Abstract

The state public administration plays a fundamental role that affects the life of an entire population, therefore, this work was developed with the objective of knowing people's happiness index, as well as how these same people see public administration in Tocantins. As for the methodology, descriptive qualitative research was used, as well as content analysis. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews carried out with two general service assistants, one administrative assistant, two unemployed people and used the Google Forms platform, where a link with the questionnaire was sent to the UFT academics who participated in the interviews. To analyze the interviews, the content analysis technique was used. The survey results show that, in general, people are happy, as most respondents answered "yes", they are happy despite the difficulties and limitations of each one, only one person admitted not being happy and another said he was "more or less". The main reason for the interviewees' dissatisfaction is the endemic corruption in the state public administration, the way the State of Tocantins is administered. For the majority of those interviewed, it is necessary to end state corruption and improve the management of public money.