Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 5-23-2020

Publication Title

Community Mental Health Journal

Volume

57

Issue

1

Pages

178-188

Publisher Name

Springer Nature

Abstract

The study is to investigate psychological self-sufficiency—the force within someone that activates cognitive and non-cognitive process of shifting perceived barriers into hope actions—as it relates to economic self-sufficiency among jobseekers with mental health barriers. Among a sample of 2455 low-income jobseekers in job readiness programs at six community-based agencies in Chicago, a subsample of 424 who self-identified as having mental illness barriers are selected to analyze the relationships between employment hope, employment barriers, and economic self-sufficiency using structural equation modeling. Results indicate that employment hope mediates the path between perceived employment barriers and economic self-sufficiency. The study further highlights the positive effects of employment barriers on employment hope among jobseekers with perceived mental illnesses. The findings support growing evidence that psychological self-sufficiency is positively associated with gaining economic self-sufficiency in workforce development programs.

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Author Posting © Springer Nature, 2020. This article is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis Group for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Community Mental Health Journal, Volume 57, May 23, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00630-7.

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