🎓Neurodivergence in the work context

The dissertation project investigates the challenges faced by neurodivergent people due to an often inadequate fit between individual needs and the demands of the working environment. The focus is on the question of the extent to which classic occupational psychology concepts such as person-environment fit can be applied and extended to neurodivergent people in order to develop a more differentiated understanding of the interactions between individual characteristics and external conditions. In addition, the stress-strain model is used to systematically analyse the psychological strains resulting from this fit or non-fit, as well as their short and long-term consequences. The aim is to develop concrete structural approaches for the work-related inclusion of neurodivergent people on a theoretical and empirical basis. Barriers are to be removed through ergonomically and psychologically appropriate work organisation and the professional participation, satisfaction and health of this previously disadvantaged group of people is to be sustainably promoted.