No Meio do Trabalho Tinha um Afeto, Tinha um Afeto no meio do Trabalho.

The live and work in the same community marks the uniqueness of the profession of community health agent, even taking the uniform does not cease to exercise their work. This constant contact with the work environment affects and is affected by it, producing positive or negative effects on workers' health. The research sought to examine the relationship between affectivity and the working environment of community health workers in the city of Timon (MA), in addition to understanding the meaning of affectivity and its influence on the development of the community health workers; to identify the potentializing or depotentializing feelings and affections attributed by the community health workers to their work environment. The main theoretical references were the studies on work, affectivity and environmental psychology. Generator Instrument of Affective maps and in-depth interviews were the methodological procedures used for data collection, whose analysis was done through Categorical Content Analysis. The study subjects were twenty-two community health workers, the urban and rural areas. The results identify the meanings and feelings attributed to the work environment, meet the augmentative or disempowering emotions and understand the relationship between affectivity and the performance of occupation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]