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Title	Assessing mental health as a measure of work potential
Subject	Personnel management; Employees--Mental health; Performance.
Creator	Taylor, James V.
Publisher	Published by Eastern Washington University Libraries. 816 F St. Cheney, WA 99004-2453. http://www.ewu.edu/library.xml
Date	2012
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Original format: MS Word.doc
Language	eng
Rights	The author retains all ownership rights to the copyright to this Master's Thesis. Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes, and with proper attribution given to the author. The content of this thesis shall not be used for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, without the permission of the author.
Provenance	Received from the EWU Graduate Studies Office.
Title-Alternative	Mental health and work
Description-Table Of Contents	Abstract -- Table 1: Inter-correlations of Variables -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussion.
Description-Abstract	Previous research has shown that mental health issues in the work place lead to absenteeism, lost productive time (LPT), and unemployment. This study examined the utility of the Work Potential Profile (WPP) in assessing depression, anxiety, and preoccupation with health as part of a measure of work potential. The main purpose of this study was to establish convergent validity for the WPP by correlating selected WPP profile scores with the MMPI-2 scales of depression (Scale 1), psychasthenia (Scale 7), and hypochondriasis (Scale 1), and to establish divergent validity by correlating the WPP profile scores with the MMPI-2 masculinity-femininity scale (Scale 5). The WPP and MMPI-2 were administered to 202 participants during a psychological evaluation in a private practice, and then selected scales were correlated to determine convergent and divergent validity. It was found that the profile scores of the WPP correlated significantly with their corresponding MMPI-2 scales but did not correlate significantly with the masculinity-femininity scale. In addition step-wise multiple regressions were used to establish which of the selected MMPI-2 scales best predicted selected WPP profile scores. It was found that the combination of MMPI-2 Scale 2 and Scale 7 best predicted the WPP profile score of Stress and Anxiety. Also the same combination of MMPI-2 Scale 2 and Scale 7 best predicted the WPP profile score of Depression/Resentment. Furthermore, the combination of MMPI-2 Scale 7 and Scale 1 best predicted the WPP profile score of Preoccupation with Health. This validates that the WPP helps in better identifying those with decreased absenteeism, LPT, and unemployment because of mental health needs, and to formulate better interventions.
Date-Created	2012
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Relation-Is Part Of	EWU Theses Collection
Relation-Is Format Of	PDF of MS Word.doc. Cover page was not part of the original document; it was added when converted to PDF.
Rights-Rights Holder	Taylor, James V.

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