Diferentes formas de ver o dinheiro: a ótica dos jovens que vem estudar em Santa Maria.

Abstract

The convertibility that money allows, makes him an object simultaneously universal, present in every moment of economic life and that this constitutes a significant part of social life (Moreira, 2000). In this work, we seek to understand the financial behavior of young people who move to Santa Maria in order to study and therefore find themselves in greater contact with personal finance by distance from their families. The present study is characterized as a descriptive and quantitative, the sample being studied natural population of young graduates from other cities who attend undergraduate programs, using questionnaires based on this scale Schwartz Meaning of Money (1992) adapted by Moreira (2000). 500 questionnaires were obtained to apply the analysis techniques. As the main technique used was factor analysis and Structural Equation Modeling. Other tests were also used to determine the suitability of the model and further results, for example, the Bartlett test of sphericity, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO), among others. The results showed 10 factors: 'conflict', 'positive power', 'progress', 'pleasure', 'culture', 'negative power', 'detachment', 'suffering', 'generosity' and 'stability'. The factor 'conflict' could explain 12.65% of the variance and the factor 'positive power' explained 9.13% of the variance. The highest average was presented by a factor of 'stability' to 3.84 while the lowest average was related to the factor 'suffering' 2.68.