Training for the unemployed: differential effects in white- and blue-collar workers with respect to mental well-being

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antti Saloniemi ◽  
Katri Romppainen ◽  
Mattias Strandh ◽  
Pekka Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being

scholarly journals Socioeconomic gradients and mental health: implications for public health

2015 ◽  
Vol 206 (6) ◽  
pp. 461-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stewart-Brown ◽  
Preshila Chandimali Samaraweera ◽  
Frances Taggart ◽  
Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala ◽  
Saverio Stranges
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Linear Trend ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Odds Ratios ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being

BackgroundResearch on mental well-being is relatively new and studies of its determinants are rare.AimsTo investigate whether the socioeconomic correlates of mental well-being mirror those for mental illness.MethodUsing logistic regression analyses, the independent odds ratios of high and low mental well-being, compared with middle-range mental well-being, were estimated for a number of sociodemographic variables known to be associated with mental illness from 13 983 participants in the 2010 and 2011 Health Surveys for England.ResultsIndependent odds ratios for low mental well-being were as expected from studies of mental illness with increased odds for the unemployed (OR = 1.46, 95% CI 1.01–2.10) and those aged 35–54 years (OR = 1.58, 95% CI 1.35–1.84) and reduced odds for the married (OR = 0.78, 95% CI 0.62–0.97). A linear trend was observed with education and equivalised income. Odds ratios for high mental well-being differed from those for low mental well-being with regard to age (55+ years: OR = 1.48, 95% CI 1.23–1.79); employment status where there was an association only with retirement (OR = 1.35, 95% CI 1.09–1.69); education where there was no association; and equivalised income for which the association was non-linear.ConclusionsOdds ratios for low mental well-being mirrored those for mental illness, but not those for high mental well-being, suggesting that the socioeconomic factors associated with positive mental health are different from those associated with mental illness.

State Intervention and Mental Well-being Among the Unemployed

2001 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
MATTIAS STRANDH
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Unemployment Benefit ◽  
Unemployment Benefits ◽  
Active Labour Market Policy ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Positive Effect

Although the relationship between unemployment and poor mental well-being has long been an area of interest within behavioural science, the role of state intervention in the unemployment situation has not been thoroughly investigated. This article investigates how unemployment benefit systems and active labour market policy measures affect mental well-being among the unemployed in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal and nationally representative survey of 3,500 unemployed Swedes. Three different types of active labour market policy measures involving the unemployed were studied, ‘activation’, ‘vocational training’ and ‘work-place participation’ measures. Of these only involvement in ‘workplace participation’ was found to have a clearly positive effect on mental well-being among those participating. Of the two Swedish unemployment benefit systems, the more generous income replacement Unemployment Benefits and the less generous flat rate Cash Unemployment Benefits, only access to income replacement Unemployment Benefits was found to mediate the mental well-being impact of unemployment. The positive effect of access to income replacement Unemployment Benefits was further accentuated when unemployment was prolonged. Those with access to this benefit system seemed to suffer no further deterioration of mental well-being, while the mental well-being of the rest of the unemployed further deteriorated.

Non-Financial Employment Motivation and Well-Being in different Labour Market Situations: A Longitudinal Study

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Nordenmark
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Market Status ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Employment Commitment

This article examines non-financial employment motivation and mental well-being among people in different labour market situations, such as unemployment, stimulating employment or instrumental employment, and controls for the possibility that variations in motivation and well-being are either caused by present labour market status or are the result of a selection process. The article is based on a panel study of 1,782 Swedes who were interviewed at the beginning of 1996, when all were unemployed, and then again at the end of 1997, when the labour market situation had changed for some of them. The results show that, in 1997, the unemployed had the same level of employment commitment as individuals with instrumental jobs, but as compared to people with stimulating jobs, their non-financial employment motivation was weaker. In general, the unemployed report poorer mental well-being than the employed. Results support the hypothesis that the substantial changes in employment commitment and mental health observed between 1996 and 1997 are primarily due to the labour market situation in 1997. The results refute the notion that the level of employment motivation is a major determinant of the likelihood of getting a paid job.

Social support in relation to mental well-being among the unemployed A factory closure study in Finland

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heimo Viinamäki ◽  
Kaj Koskela ◽  
Leo Niskanen ◽  
Robert Arnkill
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being

scholarly journals Three-way interaction effects of workaholism on employee well-being: Evidence from blue-collar workers in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrod Haar ◽  
Maree Roche
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
Work Enjoyment ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
High Drive ◽  
Supported Work ◽  
Anxiety Depression

AbstractWorkaholism is an important workplace phenomenon that has received less empirical testing than might be expected. This study of 100 New Zealand blue-collar workers tested whether three dimensions of the workaholism triad: work involvement, drive to work and work enjoyment were related to anxiety, depression and insomnia, and in the majority this was supported. Work involvement was positively related to all outcomes, while work enjoyment was negatively related. Drive to work was positively related to anxiety and insomnia only. Overall, consistently, large amounts of variance were explained by the workaholism triad. While previously untested in the literature, a three-way interaction of the workaholism triad was found towards anxiety and insomnia. Overall, higher work involvement was useful in buffering detrimental outcomes for those with either high work involvement or high drive to work, but not both. The present study provides a new way of understanding the effects of workaholism in the workplace.

Features of career attitude among people with different mental well-being level

2021 ◽  
pp. 14-25
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Vyazovova ◽  
Viola M. Melekhova
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
Mental Well Being

We consider the current issue of assessing the mental well-being of persons in a situation of forced unemployment. Since the peculiarities of resolving the situation of job loss are associated with individual characteristics of a person due to the experience of his subjective activity and conscious behavior self-regulation, attention is focused on the attitude of the unemployed to career and life. Based on the identified socio-psychological characteristics of individual age groups, the psychological characteristics of middle-aged unemployed are highlighted, taking into account the signs of a midlife crisis that are characteristic of almost all persons of this age, and the characteristics caused by the employment crisis. The unemployment crisis can act as a negative factor preventing the resolution of the regulatory crisis and aggravating it, especially among the unemployed who have a low level of mental well-being. Despite the theoretical elaboration of the issue of determining the unemployed psychological characteristics, the issue of studying the attitude to the career of the unemployed with different mental well-being levels remains insufficiently disclosed, which determines this study issue. Mental well-being as an existential experience of a person acts as an indicator of the attitude of the unemployed to being, is a combination of positive and negative emotions based on an integrated assessment of being, an indicator of the stability of the unemployed, demonstrating subjective activity aimed at personal and professional growth. We present results of the study of the attitude of the unemployed to a career, consider the factors of attitude to life affecting the mental well-being level.

Reform and the Redefinition of the Social Contract under Gorbachev

1991 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Ludlam
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Know How ◽  
Blue Collar Workers ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Social

The concept of “social contract” is useful in understanding the process of reform currently under way in the Soviet Union. The social contract “concluded” by Khrushchev and Brezhnev provided the population with economic guarantees but deprived it of any political power. Their contract was geared primarily toward less educated, blue-collar workers. During the past seventy years Soviet society has become industrialized, urbanized, and educated. Gorbachev has understood that the well-being of the Soviet economy will in the future rest on the labor and know-how of skilled and educated professionals. He must therefore conclude a new contract that will be advantageous to this sector of society in order to ensure its participation in his efforts to reform the economy.

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