Title:
Getting back to work: self-efficacy as a predictor of employment outcome
Author:
Michael D. Regenold
Committee Member:
Ellen Fabian
Committee Member:
Mickey Fenzel
Degree Granting Institution:
Loyola University Maryland--College of Arts and Sciences
Place:
Baltimore (Md.)
Publisher:
Loyola University Maryland
Date Created:
1997
Type of Resource:
text
Genre:
thesis
Language:
eng
Format:
application/pdf
Physical Form:
electronic
Digital Source:
reformatted digital
Abstract:
This research investigated whether self-efficacy, symptomatology, and prior employment history were predictive of future vocational outcome for participants in a supported employment program. Participants were eighty-six clients of a private, non-profit agency located in Baltimore, Maryland which provides supported employment services for persons with psychiatric disabilities. Stepwise logistic regression analyses supported the relationship between degree of self-efficacy and whether participants' employment goal was attained. The relationships between the predictor variables-- symptomatology and prior employment history— and the outcome variable were not supported. Additionally, participants' degree of self-efficacy was higher at the end of the employment program's group services than at the beginning of group services. Exploratory analyses were conducted to determine whether degree of self-efficacy related to whether or not participant dropped out of employment program before attaining employment goal; stepwise logistic regression failed to support this relationship.
Subject:
Self-efficacy
Subject:
Unemployed--Psychology
Subject:
Employment re-entry--Psychological aspects
Subject:
Employment Status
Subject:
Mental Disorders
Subject:
Supported Employment
Subject:
Vocational Rehabilitation
Subject:
Employment History
Subject:
Psychiatric Patients
Subject:
Psychiatric Symptoms
Degree:
Master of Arts
Level:
Master
Discipline:
Psychology
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Identifier:
RegenoldMD-97
