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Sangmi Choi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Examining Psychological Self-Sufficiency Among Low-Income Jobseekers with Mental Health Barriers
Community Mental Health Journal, 2020Co-Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Sangmi Choi, Rana Hong, David R. HodgeAbstract: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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Psychological and economic Self-Sufficiency among low-income jobseekers with physical disability barriers
Environment and Social Psychology, 2016Co-Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Hayley Sneiderman Stokar, Sangmi ChoiAbstract:The purpose of this research is to investigate the process of psychological empowerment by way of examining the effects of perceived employment barrier on employment hope, and employment hope on economic Self-Sufficiency. A structural equation modeling analysis was used with a sample of 517 participants in a job readiness program of a community-based social service organization in Chicago. Results indicate that employment hope mediates the path between perceived barriers and economic Self-Sufficiency. Findings provide preliminary evidence to support an empowerment-based approach to rehabilitation, promoting Self-Sufficiency among people with physical disabilities using interventions that address employment barriers and employment hope.
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Employment Hope as an Empowerment Pathway to Self-Sufficiency Among Exoffenders
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2014Co-Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Dara Lewis, Sangmi ChoiAbstract:The purpose of this research is to examine the process of psychological empowerment as it impacts exoffenders' Self-Sufficiency. This transformational process of social inclusion involves developing employment hope as one strives for economic success. Using a sample of 154 exoffenders receiving services from a community-based social service organization in Chicago, this study investigated how Self-esteem, Self-efficacy, and employment hope affect Self-Sufficiency. Based on structural equation model analyses, employment hope significantly mediated the path from Self-esteem to Self-Sufficiency. This study confirms previous studies that suggest a renewed focus on employment hope for comprehensively supporting exoffenders' successful transition to Self-Sufficiency.
Philip Young P. Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Examining Psychological Self-Sufficiency Among Low-Income Jobseekers with Mental Health Barriers
Community Mental Health Journal, 2020Co-Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Sangmi Choi, Rana Hong, David R. HodgeAbstract: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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Psychological and economic Self-Sufficiency among low-income jobseekers with physical disability barriers
Environment and Social Psychology, 2016Co-Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Hayley Sneiderman Stokar, Sangmi ChoiAbstract:The purpose of this research is to investigate the process of psychological empowerment by way of examining the effects of perceived employment barrier on employment hope, and employment hope on economic Self-Sufficiency. A structural equation modeling analysis was used with a sample of 517 participants in a job readiness program of a community-based social service organization in Chicago. Results indicate that employment hope mediates the path between perceived barriers and economic Self-Sufficiency. Findings provide preliminary evidence to support an empowerment-based approach to rehabilitation, promoting Self-Sufficiency among people with physical disabilities using interventions that address employment barriers and employment hope.
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Employment Hope as an Empowerment Pathway to Self-Sufficiency Among Exoffenders
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2014Co-Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Dara Lewis, Sangmi ChoiAbstract:The purpose of this research is to examine the process of psychological empowerment as it impacts exoffenders' Self-Sufficiency. This transformational process of social inclusion involves developing employment hope as one strives for economic success. Using a sample of 154 exoffenders receiving services from a community-based social service organization in Chicago, this study investigated how Self-esteem, Self-efficacy, and employment hope affect Self-Sufficiency. Based on structural equation model analyses, employment hope significantly mediated the path from Self-esteem to Self-Sufficiency. This study confirms previous studies that suggest a renewed focus on employment hope for comprehensively supporting exoffenders' successful transition to Self-Sufficiency.
Deanna L. Williamson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Self-Sufficiency Trap: A Critical Examination of Welfare-to-Work
Social Service Review, 2012Co-Authors: Rhonda Breitkreuz, Deanna L. WilliamsonAbstract:This article examines the notion of Self-Sufficiency as the central goal of recent policy efforts in Canada to move social assistance recipients into the labor market. The authors base their examination on a longitudinal, institutional-ethnographic study of 17 welfare-to-work participants attempting to make the transition from social assistance to employment in the province of Alberta, Canada. Findings from a thematic analysis of in-depth interviews with participants about their day-to-day experiences show that there is a considerable gap between “the promise” and “the reality” of welfare-to-work programs. This gap reveals the difficulties of relying on the goal of Self-Sufficiency for all citizens, demonstrating how, as an abstract ideological notion, Self-Sufficiency has shaped concrete policy orientations that affect marginalized citizens by overpromising and underdelivering sustainable employment.
Giuliano Grazzini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Plasma and plasma-derived medicinal product Self-Sufficiency: the Italian case.
Blood Transfusion, 2013Co-Authors: Gabriele Calizzani, Samantha Profili, Fabio Candura, Monica Lanzoni, Stefania Vaglio, Livia Cannata, Liviana Catalano, Rosa Chianese, Giancarlo M. Liumbruno, Giuliano GrazziniAbstract:According to the World Health Organization, “Self-Sufficiency in safe blood and blood products based on voluntary non-remunerated blood donation (VNRBD) means that the national needs of patients for safe blood and blood products, as assessed within the framework of the National Health Service (NHS), are met in a timely manner, that patients have equitable access to transfusion services and blood products, and that these products are obtained from VNRBD of national, and where needed, of regional origin, such as from neighbouring countries”1. In Italy, the achievement of Self-Sufficiency of plasma-derived medicinal products (PMPs), as well as blood components, is a goal of the blood system “aimed at guaranteeing equal conditions of quality and safety of transfusion therapy to all citizens”, as set out by the main regulatory reference2. Self-Sufficiency is recognised as a role of “national, supra-regional, supra-local indivisible interest of the National Health Service” whose achievement is entrusted to the contributions of the regional health authorities. In order to attain this strategic goal, the Ministry of Health is responsible for defining an annual national programme for Self-Sufficiency aimed at identifying historical usages, real demand, necessary production levels, resources, funding system criteria, interregional PMP exchanges, import and export levels3–5. Moreover, according to current legislative provisions6,7, a special decree must be adopted for defining the “program for the development of plasma collection in blood services and blood collection units, as well as the promotion of an appropriate and rational use of plasma-derived medicinal products”. In addition, national plasma derives from voluntary, periodic, responsible, anonymous and non-remunerated donations2. Regions and Autonomous Provinces (APs) (henceforth referred to as “Regions”), individually or in association, send the plasma collected by blood establishments (BE) to Kedrion Biopharma (Kedrion SpA, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Lucca, Italy), which, at the moment, is the only manufacturer authorised under a toll fractionation agreement. The latter has the capacity to produce at least the following PMPs: human albumin solution (albumin), polyvalent immunoglobulin (for intravascular administration, IVIG), plasma-derived factor VIII concentrates (pdFVIII), plasma-derived factor IX concentrates (pdFIX), prothrombin complex concentrates (PCCs), and antithrombin (AT). However, Regions remain owners of the plasma sent for fractionation, as well as of PMPs manufactured and of the residual raw material, including discards. Therefore, Self-Sufficiency strongly depends on the capacity of regional health systems and the national blood system to ensure the satisfaction of patients’ needs using all products obtained by the manufacturing of national plasma within the toll fractionation agreements between Regions and fractionators thus reducing supplies from the pharmaceutical market8–10. However, also the appropriate clinical use of plasma11 and of PMPs plays a key role in Self-Sufficiency. The aim of the present paper is to address the issue of PMPs Self-Sufficiency in Italy in 2011.
Gerard M. Barber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Self‐Sufficiency, Ecology of Work, and Welfare Reform
Social Service Review, 2001Co-Authors: Robert H. Daugherty, Gerard M. BarberAbstract:The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act specifies Self‐Sufficiency as the goal of welfare reform. This article identifies the philosophical and historical foundations for the concept of Self‐Sufficiency, and it identifies ways that the concept needs to be both clarified and made more richly operational through a perspective of the ecology of work. This approach highlights limitations of the contemporary use of the concept of Self‐Sufficiency and places the term more realistically in a social and cultural analytical framework that takes into account the perspective of people whose lives are affected by social policy.