Poverty stricken? A plea for a greater emphasis on the role of poverty in psychological research on unemployment and mental health in the social context

  • D. M. Fryer
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Abstract

Is our understanding of the experience of unemployment rich or poverty stricken? The literature on the psychological consequences of unemployment is certainly rich and detailed in some respects. Indeed, a massive research effort over the last sixty years paints a rich, detailed and in some regards increasingly persuasive picture of the personal and social consequences of unemployment. In other respects, however, our understanding of this area has become increasingly impoverished over this period, whilst the actual impoverishment of unemployed people has been decreasingly emphasised. To explore these issues, I begin with a brief review of the main findings reported in the literature.

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Psychological Distress Psychological Impact Unemployed People Unemployed Person Agency Restriction 
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