Teaching Job Interview Skills Through a Positive Psychology Framework: a Pilot RCT.
The job interview is a challenge for autistic youth, as they can have difficulty identifying and discussing their strengths in a strategic way. In this pilot randomized controlled trial, we examined the preliminary efficacy of Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression (KF-STRIDE), a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders p. 1 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Aug2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=187585017&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 187585017 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01623257 AUT jtl: Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders issn: 01623257 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2025 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 187585017 10.1007/s10803-025-06946-1 187585017 ppf: 1 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Teaching Job Interview Skills Through a Positive Psychology Framework: a Pilot RCT. aug: au: Genova, Helen M. Haas, Mikayla Chen, Yu-Lun Elsayed, Heba E. Reduzzi, Katarina Botticello, Amanda Smith, Matthew J. affil: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School sug: ab: The job interview is a challenge for autistic youth, as they can have difficulty identifying and discussing their strengths in a strategic way. In this pilot randomized controlled trial, we examined the preliminary efficacy of Kessler Foundation Strength Identification and Expression (KF-STRIDE), a positive psychology-based training program designed to build awareness of personal character strengths and facilitate expressing them to a potential employer. Forty autistic TAY were randomly assigned to either receive KF-STRIDE (<italic>n</italic> = 20) or services-as-usual (SAU; <italic>n</italic> = 20). Two primary outcomes were examined: job interview skills (measured using a video-recorded mock job interview) and employment. Secondary outcomes included self-reports of knowledge of one’s own strengths, job interview skills, interview anxiety, and work readiness. The intervention group showed greater improvement in interview skills than the SAU control group (<italic>p</italic> = 0.01). The intervention group also showed greater improvement in self-reported knowledge of one’s own strengths (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001). An analysis of participants who sought employment revealed a higher percentage of individuals in the intervention group (54.5%) became employed in the 6 months following the intervention compared to only 12.5% of the SAU control group. This pilot RCT suggests that KF-STRIDE may lead to improvements in performance-based job interview skills, knowledge of one’s own strengths, and potentially employment. A fully-powered clinical trial examining the effectiveness of KF-STRIDE will be an important next step to evaluating KF-STRIDE’s impact. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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