Effects of meaning in life and of work on health in unemployment

Thill, Steve; Houssemand, Claude; Pignault, Anne

doi:10.1177/2055102920967258

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“…Conversely, un/underemployment may disrupt this pathway. Research suggests that if unemployed and underemployed individuals perceive their lives as purposeful and meaningful, they can manage their work-related difficulties more effectively (Thill et al, 2020). Thus, although un/underemployed people are vulnerable to loss of meaning, they also constitute a population that may draw great benefit from increased meaning.…”

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The Work Intervention Network (WIN): Foundations of a Holistic Vocational Intervention

Autin

Allan

Blustein

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Journal of Career Assessment

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The aim of the current study was to examine whether the key constructs targeted in the Work Intervention Network (WIN) intervention uniquely predicted well-being outcomes and mediated relations between un/underemployment and these outcomes. Using data from a sample of 462 adults in the U.S., we positioned employment status as a predictor of life satisfaction, well-being, and psychological distress. We also tested four mediators of these relations that operationalized targets in the WIN intervention – career engagement, social support, self-care, and self-blame. Employment status indirectly predicted life satisfaction, life meaning, and psychological distress via self-care and self-blame. Career engagement mediated the relation between employment status and psychological distress but in an unexpected direction. Social support was not directly predicted by employment status but predicted life satisfaction and life meaning. Results provided initial support for the WIN intervention and corroborate the contention that employment status is an important predictor of well-being.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Work Intervention Network (WIN): Foundations of a Holistic Vocational Intervention

Autin

Allan

Blustein

et al. 2022

Journal of Career Assessment

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“…Perhaps the greatest threat of AI is the potential for loss of meaning in life and human-technology-created enfeeblement in a large section of humanity. 9,[23][24][25][26] All the other threats including that of the current AI are mere epiphenomena of this basic threat.…”

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Artificial Intelligence: First Do the Long Overdue Doable

Patwardhan

2023

J Prim Care Community Health

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Release of ChatGPT-4, an internet-based computer program that simulates conversation with human users using Artificial Intelligence (AI) on March 14, 2023 set off a flurry of debates regarding the role and impact of AI on human life. Influential leaders and thinkers from diverse fields have chimed in to offer their views, admonitions, and or recommendations. There seems to be a great diversity in viewpoints and visions regarding how AI would affect human destiny—right from confident optimism to stark doomsaying and all in between. However, not much attention is being paid to the insidious long-term effects on human societies, many of them being unintended consequences, that AI has the potential to create over a short period of time. Perhaps the greatest threat of AI is the potential for loss of meaning in life and human-technology-created enfeeblement in a large section of humanity. All the other threats including that of the current AI are mere epiphenomena of this basic threat. In view of the fact that the genie of AI is out of the bottle and that it cannot be put back in, the first order of business for technologists, policy makers, and the governments is to allocate resources and attention to address the problem of meaning in life and mitigation of the sentiment of overwhelming and universal helplessness. Lastly, not to be optimistic about AI while being cautious and pragmatic is not an option.

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“…Besides, the unemployed scored higher in abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other harmful substances, which may further develop into substance abuse without a proper coping strategy (Bocchino et al, 2021). Within all the named symptoms of the unemployed syndrome, losing the meaning of life and individual functioning is the most struggling for many individuals, which is the culprit that can give people the biggest blow (Thill et al, 2020;Levy and Cohen-Louck, 2021;Rosen and Stenbeck, 2021). As employment and personal/household income are the most direct factors related to individuals' mental health conditions in their daily lives, we summarized existed studies that compared unemployed individuals and employed individuals regarding their mental health problems in Table 2 (Banna et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2020;Patabendige et al, 2020;Ueda et al, 2020;Verma and Mishra, 2020;Hassannia et al, 2021;Munoz-Navarro et al, 2021) and the association between income and mental health problems in Table 3 (Banna et al, 2020;Naser et al, 2020;Que et al, 2020;Shi et al, 2020;Verma and Mishra, 2020;Munoz-Navarro et al, 2021;Zheng et al, 2021a).…”

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COVID-19 Induced Economic Slowdown and Mental Health Issues

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The COVID-19 pandemic has pressed a pause button on global economic development, and induced significant mental health problems. In order to demonstrate the progressed relationship between the pandemic, economic slowdown, and mental health burden, we overviewed the global-level gross domestic product changes and mental problems variation since the outbreak of COVID-19, and reviewed comprehensively the specific sectors influenced by the pandemic, including international trade, worldwide travel, education system, healthcare system, and individual employment. We hope to provide timely evidence to help with the promotion of policymakers’ effective strategies in mitigating economic losses induced by the pandemic; we suggest different governments or policy makers in different countries to share information and experience in dealing with COVID-19-induced economic slowdown and promote COVID-19 vaccine popularization plan to protect every individual worldwide against the coronavirus essentially; and we appeal international information share and collaboration to minimize stigmatization related to adverse mental consequences of COVID-19 and to increase mental health wellbeings of people all over the world.

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Effects of meaning in life and of work on health in unemployment

Cited by 12 publications

References 59 publications

The Work Intervention Network (WIN): Foundations of a Holistic Vocational Intervention

The Work Intervention Network (WIN): Foundations of a Holistic Vocational Intervention

Artificial Intelligence: First Do the Long Overdue Doable

COVID-19 Induced Economic Slowdown and Mental Health Issues

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