The role of college self-efficacy and the development of professional identity: Preparing psychiatric rehabilitation practitioners.

IF 1.9 3区医学 Q3 PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-16 DOI:10.1037/prj0000665

William R Waynor, Yuane Jia, Joni Dolce, Jake Mariani

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Abstract

Objective: The present study assessed the relationship of college self-efficacy (beliefs in capacity to complete college tasks) and psychiatric rehabilitation attitudes (PRA; a measure of professional identity) and their relationship to educational barriers and several demographic variables among undergraduate students studying psychiatric rehabilitation.

Methods: A total of N = 92 undergraduate students completed an online survey for the current analysis. Data were collected on college self-efficacy, PRA (including beliefs, goals, practices), educational barriers, and student demographics.

Results: We found that students' college self-efficacy was positively associated with PRA (r = .326, p = .002). White students endorsed significantly stronger PRA (effect size 0.52, p = .03). College students' self-efficacy was inversely associated with living with mental health conditions (r = -.209, p = .028) and whether started clinical practicum (p = .015) where students who started clinical practicum had significantly higher self-efficacy, regardless of whether they lived with a mental health conditions or not.

Conclusions and implications for practice: Consistent with social cognitive career theory, students with higher college self-efficacy scored higher on the professional identity measure in the present study, PRA. We discuss the implications of this finding for rehabilitation education programs preparing students to work with individuals in the behavioral health care and rehabilitation fields. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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大学生自我效能感与职业认同发展的作用：培养精神康复从业人员。

目的：研究心理康复专业大学生的大学自我效能感（对完成大学任务能力的信念）与心理康复态度（职业认同的衡量标准）的关系及其与学业障碍和几个人口统计学变量的关系。方法：共有N = 92名本科生完成在线调查进行当前分析。收集的数据包括大学自我效能感、PRA（包括信念、目标、实践）、教育障碍和学生人口统计。结果：大学生大学自我效能感与PRA呈正相关（r = .326, p = .002）。白人学生对PRA的认可明显更强（效应量0.52,p = .03）。大学生的自我效能感与心理健康状况呈负相关（r = - 0.209, p = 0.028），与是否开始临床实习呈负相关（p = 0.015），其中开始临床实习的学生无论是否有心理健康状况，自我效能感都显著提高。结论与实践启示：与社会认知职业理论一致，在本研究中，大学自我效能感越高的学生在职业认同量表上得分越高。我们讨论了这一发现对康复教育计划的影响，使学生在行为卫生保健和康复领域与个人一起工作。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。

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Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal Multiple-

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3.80

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5.30%

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期刊介绍： The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal is sponsored by the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, at Boston University"s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and by the US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA) . The mission of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal is to promote the development of new knowledge related to psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery of persons with serious mental illnesses.