Dikmen S, Morgan S F
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1980 Apr;168(4):236-40. doi: 10.1097/00005053-198004000-00008.
The relationship between neuropsychological abilities and employment and occupational status was examined in 108 epilepsy patients. The performances of each subject on a wide range of neuropsychological measures were grouped into six conceptually meaningful ability categories. Highly significant differences were obtained between groups of patients with epilepsy differing in employment status and occupational status across both the range of individual measures and the composite neuropsychological ability areas utilized. The relative importance of the six ability scores was then examined with respect to employment status and occupational status. The results suggest that generalized neuropsychological dysfunction characterizes groups of persons who are unemployed and/or who have held low occupational level jobs. Within this context of general impairment, however, memory and alertness and flexibility in thinking appear to be relatively important abilities with respect to these general employment variables. Implications of the results for vocational and rehabilitation efforts were discussed.
在108名癫痫患者中研究了神经心理能力与就业及职业地位之间的关系。每个受试者在一系列广泛的神经心理测试中的表现被归为六个概念上有意义的能力类别。在就业状况和职业地位不同的癫痫患者组之间，无论是在个体测试范围还是在综合神经心理能力领域，都获得了高度显著的差异。然后针对就业状况和职业地位检查了六个能力得分的相对重要性。结果表明，失业和/或从事低职业水平工作的人群具有一般性神经心理功能障碍的特征。然而，在这种普遍受损的背景下，就这些总体就业变量而言，记忆、思维的敏捷性和灵活性似乎是相对重要的能力。讨论了这些结果对职业和康复工作的启示。
