Maintaining Wellbeing during Unemployment

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Distress and unemployment: the related economic and noneconomic factors in a sample of unemployed adults

“…The factors suggested by the model have been empirically validated by other studies (Creed and Klisch 2005;Hoare and Machin 2006;Creed and Bartrum 2008;Paul and Batinic 2010;Kroll and Lampert 2011;Selenko et al 2011;Feuls et al 2014).…”

“…Nonetheless, the findings receive ample empirical support from longitudinal studies that state that higher distress among the unemployed is largely a consequence of job loss and not the contrary (Paul and Moser 2009). Also, latent deprivation has been found to be reduced when people are re-employed (Hoare and Machin 2006). In addition to this limitation, unemployed people are a very heterogeneous group and other key moderators of mental well-being should be accounted for in future research (i.e.…”

The need for work: Jahoda's latent functions of employment in a representative sample of the German population

“…Several studies from Australia (e.g., Creed & Macintytre, 2001;Creed & Reynolds, 2001;Feather & Bond, 1983;Hoare & Machin, 2006;Muller, Creed, Waters, & Machin, 2005;Waters & Moore, 2002a), the United Kingdom (Evans & Banks, 1992;Haworth & Paterson, 1995;Haworth, & Evans, 1987;Kilpatrick & Trew, 1985;Miles, 1983), and the USA (Brief, Konovsky, Goodwin, & Link, 1995;Wanberg, Griffiths, & Gavin, 1997) have demonstrated that the amount of access to the latent functions is correlated with various measures of mental health among employed and unemployed persons, as predicted by Jahoda's model. However, apart from a few studies involving students (e.g., Creed & Evans, 2002;Evans & Banks, 1992), the existing studies were usually restricted to members of the labor force.…”

Work, love, and death‐thought accessibility: A terror management investigation

“…Finally, the manipulations we used to lead people to consider unemployment are promising but novel, and while they have face validity, we sought to include a measure gauging whether this protocol actually leads to the sorts of responses one might expect from considerations of unemployment and thus inform the validity of the manipulation. Consequently, to achieve some indication of convergent validity that our manipulations were inducing the affective responses one might expect from consideration of unemployment, we included a measure of affect and looked to find some consilience with previous research indicating unemployment is related to greater negative affect (Hoare & Machin, ; Paul & Moser, ), sadness (Krueger & Mueller, ), and aggression (e.g., Fischer, Greitemeyer, & Frey, ), and literature suggesting a more general tendency for interference with attainment of a desired goal (i.e., being employed) fostering frustration and hostility (e.g., Berkowitz, ).…”