Further Validation of the WPSI Vocational Scale: Comparisons with Other Correlates of Employment in Epilepsy

摘要: The present study evaluates the relationships between employment status and five types of variables: years education, intelligence, emotional adjustment, neuropsychological impairment, psychosocial adjustment. latter two areas were evaluated by procedures specifically developed for work with seizure patients include use Neuropsychological Battery Epilepsy Washington Psychosocial Seizure Inventory. Fifty-eight divided into groups based on their histories classified as unemployed, underemployed, employed. Results indicated that clients having seizures demonstrated most potent consistent status. suggests these in evaluation employability may be more effective than using only those variables which traditionally have been applied.