Psychological Effects of Unemployment

In the background of studies of recent years hypothesizing a connection between unemployment and various negative psychological effects are myriad, and often negative, changes in economic structures and employment patterns of the world's industrialized nations from the 1970s forward. The U.S. and the countries of Western Europe have undergone cycles of inflation and recession that have affected the structure and stability of the international political economy (Dew, Penkower, & Bromet, 1991). Meanwhile, domestic economies have been affected by activities and decisions undertaken by both government and industry, as evidenced by dramatic fluctuations in or disruption of commodities, securi

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Tiggemann, and Winefield (1991, p. 473) found that for males, "unemployment was worse than unsatisfactory employment, but . . . for the females unsatisfactory employment was worse than unemployment." What these findings seem to suggest is that the basis for depressive symptoms among unemployed and unsatisfactorily employed women may shift, but that employment-related depression is indicative of the high psychological stake than women have in employment status. They also suggest that the content of employment-related depression, particularly in women, has not been sufficiently understood. The most dramatic negative psychological reactions to unemployment or indeed to any negative life experience are of course the most destructive: suicide and attempted suicide (parasuicide). In the modern period, the seminal hypothesis linking suicide and changes in economic status in the industrial West appears to have been advanced by Durkheim in 1897 (Morell, Taylor, Quine & Kerr, 1993, citing Durkheim's Suicide, A Study in Sociology). Subsequent studies have sought to confirm or otherwise validate Durkheim's hypothesis. Curiously, however, studies aimed at finding the fact or manner of the link between suicidal behavior and unemployment have c
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