A longitudinal examination of re-employment quality on internalizing symptoms and job-search intentions
| Autor: | Samuel S. Monfort, George W. Howe, Karen L. Weihs, Christopher D. Nettles |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Employment Male media_common.quotation_subject Personal Satisfaction Anxiety Job Satisfaction Article Developmental psychology Underemployment Interviews as Topic Young Adult Cognition medicine Humans Quality (business) Longitudinal Studies Occupations Empirical evidence Applied Psychology media_common Aged Aged 80 and over Depression Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cognitive complexity Middle Aged Mental health United States Mental Health Categorization Unemployment Income Female medicine.symptom Psychology Factor Analysis Statistical Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of occupational health psychology. 20(1) |
| ISSN: | 1939-1307 |
| Popis: | Underemployed workers—those receiving less pay, working fewer hours, or using fewer skills than they would prefer—appear to experience negative mental health outcomes similar to the unemployed. Prior cross-sectional research provides mixed empirical evidence for this conclusion, however. The current study sought to clarify the impact of underemployment longitudinally, assessing mental health five times over eight months following job loss. In addition to the commonly used indicators of underemployment, we designed a measure of cognitive complexity using the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), an extensive government database used to organize and categorize occupational information. Replicating past research, we found concurrent associations between all indexes of re-employment job quality and internalizing symptoms in the period immediately after re-employment. However, when controlling for quality of prior employment, all indicators except our measure for cognitive complexity became non-significant. As participants transitioned from unemployment to re-employment, only reductions in cognitive complexity were associated with sustained general internalizing symptoms. We also found that although changes in cognitive complexity had an immediate impact on the well-being of the recently re-employed, only the number of available weekly hours (full-time vs. part-time status) was relevant 6-12 weeks later. Our longitudinal model thus provides significant nuance to the current understanding of underemployment and mental health. |
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