Annotated Bibliography Broomhall, H.S., & Winefield, A.H. (1990). A c

The article reports a study that seeks to account for whatever well-being may be experienced by younger and older unemployed men, regardless of their shared condition of unemployment. The study is relevant to the subject of research because a general sense of well-being is a significant aspect of psychological experience. One major finding was that older men experience greater trauma upon unemployment than younger men, reflecting the commonsense inference that older men inevitably have a greater stake in their professional lives and a greater sense of the security they have lost. More intriguing is the finding that the experience of social support (family support for younger men, leisure activities with peers for older men) is more important to the well-being of the unemployed than their financial status. In other words, some experience of fellow feeling outweighs financial insecurity brought on by unemployment. What is implied, but expressed only minimally, is that the psychological community, and by extension such official agencies or service organizations that employ psychological professionals, may have a stake in manipulating environmental factors that facilitate the kind of support unemployed men may need. Broomhall and Winefield are much more direct in calling

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can lead to parasuicide; and 3) that some third factor precedes both unemployment and parasuicide, which are not, however, directly related. In studying the cases, Jones, et al. found that both employed and unemployed parasuicides had psychosocial problems, but that unemployment aggravated or brought on psychosocial problems for parasuicides, making unemployment indirectly but not causally responsible suicidal behavior. In other words, psychological problems were a greater predictor of parasuicide than unemployment as such. The implication is that public-policy or therapeutic service interventions are indicated for psychological problems, irrespective of employment status. All well and good, but the main problem with this study is that its sample was too small (one hospital, limited number of parasuicides) and that unemployed nonsuicidal persons, an empirical control mechanism, were not included in the study. Both points are made at the end of the article, together with a suggestion that the study be replicated for a larger group and with suitable control populations. Question 1: Why wasn't the study so designed in the first place? Question 2 (and perhaps even more important): How can future studies account for the multivaried ki
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Approximate Word count = 3915
Approximate Pages = 16 (250 words per page)