Self-concept and ideal-self in assessing the rehabilitation applicant

Attempted to determine whether people who contact a vocational rehabilitation agency as presumed applicants could be differentiated on the basis of the subsequent rehabilitation outcome by means of certain tests. It was hypothesized that the self-concept and the ideal-self-concept were important determiners of whether an applicant would persist beyond the initial interview. Instruments measuring the self-concept and the ideal-self-concept were administered to a sample of 320 rehabilitation applicants. Applicants classified as "investigators" could be distinguished from those who were "accepted" for service. Those who were finally rehabilitated could be distinguished from all the others. It appeared that these instruments merit further study in a vocational rehabilitation setting.