Type of Project: Dissertation Scientific Work
Resource development in vocational rehabilitation of persons with mental illness

Experience and processing of stress at work depends significantly on perceived job-related personal, social and professional resources. Therefore the improvement of perceived job-related resources is an important purpose of vocational rehabilitation. Different approaches of vocational rehabilitation of mentally ill persons can be characterized in terms of content orientation (qualification vs. training) and the point of job-integration in the process of rehabilitation (early vs. late). It is likely that different measures have different effects on perceived job-related resources: qualification-oriented measures probably influence more professional resources (e.g. professional competence), training-oriented more personal resources (e.g. resilience). Measures with earlier job-integration should have more effects on social resources (e.g. social support) than measures with later job-integration. Based on stress and resource theories in a GLM-design will be examined, if and in which way relevant perceived personal, social and professional resources and control and selfefficiacy change during different measures of vocational rehabilitation. The project includes the developement of a questionnaire for measuring perceived occupational resources.