Abstract
Considering that adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) experience many barriers and challenges in designing and living a satisfactory life, based on Life Design paradigm, this study aimed at analyzing the direct and indirect effect of career adaptability, through hope, on life satisfaction in a sample of individuals with SUD compared to a sample of individuals without SUD. In this study, a sample of 185 adults with and 185 adults without SUD was involved and different measures to assess career adaptability (Career Adapt-Abilities Scale-Italian Form; Soresi, Nota, & Ferrari; 2012), hope (The Adult Hope Scale) and life satisfaction (The Satisfaction with Life Scale) were used. Multigroup structural analyses were conducted to test the group differences in the direct and indirect effects model hypothesized. Results showed that career adaptability is indirectly, through hope, related to life satisfaction across two groups. These results have important implications for practice and emphasize the need to promoting career adaptability and hope in people with SUD to improve their life satisfaction that is an important diagnostic and outcome criteria in substance use disorder issues.
Highlights
The labor participation rate reflects the economic possibility of a country and its tendency to include individuals with vulnerabilities in the job market (Hira-Friesen, 2017)
Among individuals with a vulnerability, adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) are at high risk to be excluded in the job market and in the social context (e.g., Richardson et al, 2012)
Based on Life Design paradigm, the aim of this study was to test the relationship between career adaptability, hope and life satisfaction in adults with SUD compared to adults without SUD
Summary
The labor participation rate reflects the economic possibility of a country and its tendency to include individuals with vulnerabilities in the job market (Hira-Friesen, 2017). Among individuals with a vulnerability, adults with Substance Use Disorder (SUD) are at high risk to be excluded in the job market and in the social context (e.g., Richardson et al, 2012). The 2013 report raised a real alarm about the unemployment rates of individuals with SUD, noting that one in two adults with SUD is unemployed and lives in precarious conditions. These findings are confirmed in Italy where about the 70% of individuals in treatment for SUD appear to be unemployed or employed in precarious jobs (Dipartimento Politiche Antidroga—Drugs Policies Department, 2016)
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