Perceived social status among people with psychiatric disabilities attending work-oriented and meeting place-oriented day centers
Tjörnstrand, Carina LU ; Argentzell, Elisabeth LU and Eklund, Mona LU
(2016)
In Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
55(1).
p.19-28
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Day centers have been criticized for giving attendees a lower social status because they only offer activities that are often work-like although not financially of benefit to attendees. OBJECTIVES: To explore day center attendees' perceived social status and to identify associations among the attendees with the center's orientation with activity, well-being, and psychiatric symptoms. METHOD: Day center attendees in meeting place-oriented (n = 39) and work-oriented (n = 54) day centers in Sweden were interviewed addressing the targeted factors using both self-rated and interview-based instruments. RESULT: Attendees rated themselves close to the middle on the social status measure. No difference between groups based on day... (More)
BACKGROUND: Day centers have been criticized for giving attendees a lower social status because they only offer activities that are often work-like although not financially of benefit to attendees. OBJECTIVES: To explore day center attendees' perceived social status and to identify associations among the attendees with the center's orientation with activity, well-being, and psychiatric symptoms. METHOD: Day center attendees in meeting place-oriented (n = 39) and work-oriented (n = 54) day centers in Sweden were interviewed addressing the targeted factors using both self-rated and interview-based instruments. RESULT: Attendees rated themselves close to the middle on the social status measure. No difference between groups based on day center orientation was found. Their self-perceived positioning on social status was positively related to the worker role, occupational engagement, self-rated health, self-esteem, self-mastery, and depressive symptoms. Logistic regression models showed better self-rated health was the only predictor of belonging to the group with a higher level of social status when dichotomized according to the median. Self-rated health was the strongest indicator for scoring above the 75th percentile on perceived status, followed by self-esteem, which was also a significant indicator. CONCLUSION: These findings yielded new knowledge concerning perceived social status in the target group and the importance of health and self-esteem.
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- Tjörnstrand, Carina
LU
; Argentzell, Elisabeth
LU
and Eklund, Mona
LU
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- publishing date
- 2016
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- community mental health, Health, occupational engagement, occupational therapy, social capital
- in
- Work: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
- volume
- 55
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- IOS Press
- external identifiers
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- pmid:27612068
- wos:000386411100004
- scopus:84989339680
- ISSN
- 1051-9815
- DOI
- 10.3233/WOR-162388
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 0a18a88c-2b51-4d69-9880-448d584edc6e
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- 2016-11-03 15:35:21
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