What is it about?
Peoples' experiences of unemployment and underemployment are better understood if a psychological perspective is taken rather than just an financial perspective. Unemployment and underemployment can generate thoughts and feelings of trauma and of being rejected. On the flipside, some people maintain their thoughts and feelings of resilience in the face of the pain caused by lack of work.
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Why is it important?
The findings of this research should encourage government agencies and policy leaders to take a wider perspective of unemployment and underemployment to ensure that its traumatic effects on mental health are minimized.
Perspectives
This research is important because the participants--the unemployed and underemployed people who were interviewed--provide a real-life, first-hand description of their awful experiences and how they have survived. Their experiences are a testament to the importance of decent work.
Professor Peter McIlveen
University of Southern Queensland
This study provides real life insights into the kinds of hardships unemployment and underemployment bring to the lives of mature age workers. The impacts of lack of access to adequate employment are deep and wide-ranging. This study also highlights coping strategies marginalised workers use to help maintaining wellbeing when facing hardship.
Dr Chris Kossen
University of Southern Queensland
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This page is a summary of: Unemployment From the Perspective of the Psychology of Working, Journal of Career Development, May 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0894845317711043.
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