Promoting the competence of use: a research-intervention in the filed of vocational training

This Research-intervention is part of the models of Health Psychology for the promotion of well-being that sustain the identity of a working role in professional training (Bertini et. al, 2006; Le Boterf, 2000; Zucchermaglio, Alby, 2006). Aim of this work is the exploration of the competence of use construct, conceptualized as the ability to use training for building a professional role, to understand if this construct can be used as an interpretative criterion of trainees (N=76) different modalities of participation to training contexts. The construct has been analyzed in three dimensions: representability of training contents, utility of process resources, usability of the training at work; the indicators were studied through open answer questionnaire created ad hoc. The ACM highlighted different typologies of use: Opaque Use, Learning Use, Development Use.