Patrizia Villotti1,2, Marc Corbière2,3, Carolyn S Dewa4, Franco Fraccaroli5, Hélène Sultan-Taïeb6, Sara Zaniboni7, Tania Lecomte2,8. 1. a Centre de Recherche de l'Hôpital Charles LeMoyne , Université de Sherbrooke , Longueuil , Canada. 2. b Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de Montréal , Montréal , Canada. 3. c Department of Education - Career Counselling , Université du Québec à Montréal , Montréal , Canada. 4. d Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences , University of California , Davis , CA, USA. 5. e Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science , University of Trento , Rovereto , Italy. 6. f Département d'organisation et ressources humaines , École des Sciences de la Gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal , Montréal , Canada. 7. g Department of Psychology , University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy. 8. h Department de Psychologie , Université de Montréal , Montréal , Canada.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Compared to groups with other disabilities, people with a severe mental illness face the greatest stigma and barriers to employment opportunities. This study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between workplace social support and work productivity in people with severe mental illness working in Social Enterprises by taking into account the mediating role of self-stigma and job tenure self-efficacy. METHOD: A total of 170 individuals with a severe mental disorder employed in a Social Enterprise filled out questionnaires assessing personal and work-related variables at Phase-1 (baseline) and Phase-2 (6-month follow-up). Process modeling was used to test for serial mediation. RESULTS: In the Social Enterprise workplace, social support yields better perceptions of work productivity through lower levels of internalized stigma and higher confidence in facing job-related problems. When testing serial multiple mediations, the specific indirect effect of high workplace social support on work productivity through both low internalized stigma and high job tenure self-efficacy was significant with a point estimate of 1.01 (95% CI = 0.42, 2.28). CONCLUSIONS: Continued work in this area can provide guidance for organizations in the open labor market addressing the challenges posed by the work integration of people with severe mental illness. Implications for Rehabilitation: Work integration of people with severe mental disorders is difficult because of limited access to supportive and nondiscriminatory workplaces. Social enterprise represents an effective model for supporting people with severe mental disorders to integrate the labor market. In the social enterprise workplace, social support yields better perceptions of work productivity through lower levels of internalized stigma and higher confidence in facing job-related problems.
PURPOSE: Compared to groups with other disabilities, people with a severe mental illness face the greatest stigma and barriers to employment opportunities. This study contributes to the understanding of the relationship between workplace social support and work productivity in people with severe mental illness working in Social Enterprises by taking into account the mediating role of self-stigma and job tenure self-efficacy. METHOD: A total of 170 individuals with a severe mental disorder employed in a Social Enterprise filled out questionnaires assessing personal and work-related variables at Phase-1 (baseline) and Phase-2 (6-month follow-up). Process modeling was used to test for serial mediation. RESULTS: In the Social Enterprise workplace, social support yields better perceptions of work productivity through lower levels of internalized stigma and higher confidence in facing job-related problems. When testing serial multiple mediations, the specific indirect effect of high workplace social support on work productivity through both low internalized stigma and high job tenure self-efficacy was significant with a point estimate of 1.01 (95% CI = 0.42, 2.28). CONCLUSIONS: Continued work in this area can provide guidance for organizations in the open labor market addressing the challenges posed by the work integration of people with severe mental illness. Implications for Rehabilitation: Work integration of people with severe mental disorders is difficult because of limited access to supportive and nondiscriminatory workplaces. Social enterprise represents an effective model for supporting people with severe mental disorders to integrate the labor market. In the social enterprise workplace, social support yields better perceptions of work productivity through lower levels of internalized stigma and higher confidence in facing job-related problems.
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Keywords:
Severe mental illness;; self-stigma;; social enterprise;; social support;; work productivity
Authors: Carolyn S Dewa; Jeffrey S Hoch; Marc Corbière; Patrizia Villotti; Lucy Trojanowski; Hélène Sultan-Taïeb; Sara Zaniboni; Franco Fraccaroli Journal: Community Ment Health J Date: 2018-05-08
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