The Function of Occupational Activity for Health as Perceived by Chronically Ill People

Katarzyna Mariańczyk, Wojciech Otrębski and Karolina Krzysztofik
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Katarzyna Mariańczyk: Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Wojciech Otrębski: Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
Karolina Krzysztofik: Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, 20-950 Lublin, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-13

Abstract: Existing studies confirm the benefits of employment for chronically ill persons’ health, but few studies so far have delved into how they themselves perceive employment in relation to their health. There is also a paucity of information about individual factors influencing the formation of their perceptions. This study sought to determine differences between chronically ill persons with and without jobs regarding their perceptions of the function of employment for the physical, mental and social dimensions of health, as well as how their occupational activity or inactivity moderates the associations between the perception of work as health beneficial or health adverse and selected individual characteristics, such as self-efficacy, acceptance of illness, actualisation of self, and psychosocial problems. The study involved 80 adults with chronic illnesses and was conducted using the following psychological tools: the WH Scale , the Generalized Self-Efficacy Scale , the Acceptance of Illness Scale , the Actualization of Self Scale and the Psychosocial Problems of Persons with Chronic Illness Scale . It has been found that the way in which chronically ill persons perceive the function of employment for health is unrelated to whether or not they have a job, and that occupational activity moderates associations between the sense of self-efficacy and the perception of work as benefitting health.

Keywords: chronic disease; employment; health; psychosocial problems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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