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Unemployment, Underemployment, and Mental Health: Conceptualizing Employment Status as a Continuum
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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
- OpenAlex
- W1591111180
- Cited by
- 226
- References
- 63
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 22.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- 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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