L'attraction des préposées aux bénéficiaires (PAB) : un travail vocationnel ou instrumental ?
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Abstract
RÉSUMÉ : L’emploi de préposé.e.s aux bénéficiaires (PAB) est de plus en plus médiatisé au Québec. Le gouvernement québécois a encouragé l’exercice de cette profession en proposant des bourses d’études à ceux qui décident d’exercer ce métier. De plus, une formation accélérée a été mise en place pendant la COVID-19. Travailler comme PAB c’est prendre soin de la vie humaine, porter assistance à des personnes autonomes, comme non autonomes, tout en effectuant une multitude de tâches en rapport avec le bien-être des personnes. L’objectif de cette recherche est de comprendre les perceptions des préposé.e.s aux bénéficiaires (PAB) en lien avec leur profession. De comprendre, s’il s’agit d’un travail vocationnel ou d’un travail instrumental et de mettre en lumière les raisons de l’attraction pour cet emploi. Pour l’atteinte de cet objectif, nous mobilisons une épistémologie interprétativiste et une méthode de recherche qualitative. Nous avons administré quatre entrevues individuelles semi-dirigées auprès de PAB possédant plus d’un an d’expérience dans le domaine. Les entrevues ont permis de comprendre les réalités vécues, les difficultés rencontrées tant au niveau de leurs tâches que des relations entretenues avec les patients. Les résultats de cette recherche ont montré qu’être PAB c’est : « prendre soin de l’autre comme si c’était soi ». Ce travail est qualifié de noble et ne mérite aucunement d’être discriminé, ni même sous-estimé comme peuvent le penser certaines personnes. Les PAB le considèrent à la fois comme une vocation par la volonté et l’amour portés à l’exercice de cet emploi et à un accomplissement personnel, mais aussi comme un travail instrumental par les conditions de travail diversement pénibles, tant sur le plan physique que mental. Bien que les perceptions des PAB diffèrent un peu, c’est une vision positive qui émerge de leurs propos, malgré les violences parfois vécues ; la culture d’origine de certains participants contribuant à cette vision. -- Mot(s) clé(s) en français : préposé.es aux bénéficiaires (PAB), travail vocationnel, travail instrumental, attraction. -- ABSTRACT : The employment of personal care attendants (PABs) is receiving increasing media coverage in Quebec. The Quebec government has encouraged the practice of this profession by offering scholarships to those who decide to enter it. In addition, an accelerated training program was set up during COVID-19. Working as a PAB means caring for human life, assisting both autonomous and non-autonomous people, while performing a multitude of tasks related to people's well-being. The aim of this research is to understand the perceptions of PABs in relation to their profession. To understand whether this is a vocational or instrumental job, and to shed light on the reasons for the attraction of this job. To achieve this objective, we mobilize an interpretativist epistemology and a qualitative research method. We conducted four individual semi-structured interviews with PABs with over a year's experience in the field. The interviews enabled us to understand the realities and difficulties encountered by PABs, both in terms of their tasks and their relationships with patients. The results of this research showed that being a PAB means “caring for others as if they were yourself”. This work is considered noble and in no way deserves to be discriminated against, or even underestimated, as some people may think. PABs see it both as a vocation, in terms of the will and love they bring to the job and their personal fulfillment, and as instrumental work, in terms of the variously arduous working conditions, both physical and mental. Although the PABs' perceptions differ somewhat, it is a positive vision that emerges from their comments, despite the violence sometimes experienced; the culture of origin of certain participants contributes to this vision. -- Mot(s) clé(s) en anglais : beneficiary attendants, vocation, instrumental job, attraction.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".