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Unemployment, Underemployment, and Mental Health: Conceptualizing Employment Status as a Continuum

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Dooley, David·2003·American Journal of Community Psychology
DOI 10.1023/a:1025634504740
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The economy is one of the most important social environments that affect well‐being, and community psychologists have long studied the social costs of one key economic stressor—job loss. But economically inadequate employment has received much less research attention than unemployment in regard to mental health effects. This paper contrasts these two literatures and considers factors that might account for their differential growth including actual rates of unemployment and underemployment. Recent panel studies offer no support for another possible basis for this differential growth—the assumption that inadequate employment is more like adequate employment than unemployment. Implications of a paradigm shift from a dichotomous perspective (employment vs. unemployment) to a continuum perspective with variations of both unemployment and employment are discussed for research and prevention. Another implication is the need to expand standard labor force statistics to reflect better the degree of underemployment.

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Authors
Dooley, D.
Affiliations
University of California, Irvine (US)
Corresponding author
Dooley, David
Venue
American Journal of Community Psychology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2003-09
Volume
32
Issue
1-2
Pages
9-20
ISSN
  • 0091-0562 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2770
DOI
10.1023/a:1025634504740
OpenAlex
W1591111180
Cited by
226
References
63
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 16 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 22
FWCI
22.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • American Journal of Community Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Labor
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Keywords
unemployment, underemployment, mental health, job loss, financial stress, labour force statistics, prevention, well-being
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Mental Disorders, Employment, Female, Humans, Male, Self Concept, Socioeconomic Factors, Student Dropouts, Unemployment

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