Pérez-Corrales, JorgeGüeita-Rodríguez, JavierHuertas-Hoyas, ElisabetGarcía-Bravo, CristinaMarconnot, RomainJiménez-Antona, CarmenVelarde-García, Juan FranciscoPalacios-Ceña, Domingo2024-01-302024-01-302021-11-211660-4601https://hdl.handle.net/10115/29228This study aimed to describe the perspectives of people with severe mental disorders who volunteer regarding the relationship between volunteering and work, from the framework of personal recovery. A qualitative phenomenological study was undertaken. Purposive sampling was conducted on people with severe mental disorders who participated in volunteering. In-depth unstructured and semi-structured interviews were used, during which researchers took handwritten field notes. An inductive thematic analysis was applied. Twenty-three participants with severe mental disorders were included (16 men and 7 women) with a mean age of 47 years. Three themes emerged: (a) the relationship between volunteering and working; (b) thinking about a possible future job; and (c) disclosing a mental health condition. Volunteering is perceived as a substitute to working, although not all participants feel able to work, and they do not always disclose that they suffer from a mental health condition.engAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/mental disordersqualitative researchstigmavocational rehabilitationvolunteersworkinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.3390/ijerph182212232info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess