Unemployment impairs mental health: Meta-analyses

By Karsten Ingmar Paul, K. Moser. 2009

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Subfields: Demography, General Health Professions, Health

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Unemployment and Psychological Distress among Young People during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Psychological Resources and Risk Factors (2020, result): “Our findings strongly support the association between unemployment and PD, and they align with the knowledge that has accumulated over the years in regard to the general population [25,27,38] and to young people [23,30].”
Am I Gonna Get a Job? Graduating Students’ Psychological Capital, Coping Styles, and Employment Anxiety (2021, background): “These conditions are deemed insidious to the well-being of those affected (Wanberg, 2012), impairing their mental health (Paul & Moser, 2009).”
Transport disadvantage, social exclusion, and subjective well-being: The role of the neighborhood environment—evidence from Sydney, Australia (2018, result): “Strong associations between income, employment and mental health are also found in previous studies (Gresenz, Sturm, & Tang, 2001; Paul & Moser, 2009).”
Employability among the long-term unemployed: A futile quest or worth the effort? (2013, background): “…production (cf. Sinfield, in press; Stenberg & Westerlund, 2008), whereas for individuals, it means a loss of earnings and job-skills, and often a negative impact on their psychological well-being and that of their families (cf. McKee-Ryan & Maitoza, in press; Paul & Moser, 2009; Wanberg, 2012).”
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Depression: A Preliminary Randomized Clinical Trial for Unemployed on Long-Term Sick Leave (2012, background): “Unemployment is associatedwith increased levels and persistence of depressive symptoms (Paul & Moser, 2009), worse treatment outcomes in depression (Sherbourne, Schoenbaum, Wells, & Croghan, 2004), and increased risk of suicide (Johansson & Sundquist, 1997; Kposowa, 2001).”
The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment (2015, positive): “…Zeisel 1933[1971]; Kasl and Jones 2000; Kessler, Turner, and House 1988, 1989; Leana and Feldman 1992; McKee-Ryan et al. 2005; Miller and Hoppe 1994; Paul and Moser 2009; Pearlin et al. 1981; Turner 1995; Warr and Jackson 1985).3 The increase in reported symptoms of depression and anxiety among…”
Pandemics: Implications for research and practice in industrial and organizational psychology (2020, background): “Decades of psychological research has established that unemployment has far reaching and deleterious results for individuals, including increasing depression and suicidality (Paul & Moser, 2009).”
After the pink slip: Applying dynamic motivation frameworks to the job search experience. (2012, background): “A recent meta-analysis compared the mental health levels of continuously unemployed individuals with the mental health levels of individuals who found jobs during the study reporting periods (Paul & Moser, 2009).”
Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: The Existential Experience of Loss and Fear (2020, background): “Extensive research has documented that unemployment is causally related to mental health problems (Paul & Moser, 2009).”
Fostering Graduate Employability: Rethinking Tanzania’s University Practices (2021, background): “The effects of graduate unemployability range from poor economic development and psychological problems (Bilgiç & Yılmaz, 2013; da Silva & Marcolan, 2015; Paul & Moser, 2009) to social unrest in some countries (Pervaiz et al., 2012).”
“I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, background): “…permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav McKee-Ryan, Harvey / Review of Underemployment 963 2010; Miller & McKee, 2009)—a cause for concern given the pervasive negative outcomes experienced by unemployed workers (McKee-Ryan, Song, Wanberg, & Kinicki, 2005; Paul & Moser, 2009).”
The individual experience of unemployment. (2012, background): “In the most recent meta-analysis, Paul & Moser (2009) first summarized the results of 237 cross-sectional studies (involving a total of 458,820 participants) that had compared the psychological health of unemployed individuals with the psychological health of an employed comparison group.”