Growing Up with Unemployment: A Longitudinal Study of Its Psychological Impact (New Library of Psychoanalysis)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 7
1 Introduction......Page 9
THE CONTEXT: UNEMPLOYMENT IN OECD COUNTRIES SINCE 1980......Page 11
PREVIEW......Page 15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 17
SOCIAL ATTITUDES TO THE UNEMPLOYED......Page 18
UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY......Page 20
YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 22
INDIVIDUAL COSTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 24
SOCIAL COSTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 25
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 26
FACTORS MODERATING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 27
THEORIES OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 29
The vitamin model......Page 30
The theory of learned helplessness......Page 31
Expectancy-value theory......Page 32
INTRODUCTION......Page 34
AGGREGATE STUDIES......Page 35
STUDIES FOCUSING ON THE INDIVIDUAL......Page 36
Cross-sectional studies......Page 37
Retrospective and longitudinal studies......Page 38
Prospective longitudinal studies......Page 39
WHAT NEXT?......Page 40
Design......Page 41
The sample......Page 42
Measures (1980–1983)......Page 44
Measures (1984–1987)......Page 46
Measures (1988)......Page 47
Work attitudes and expectations......Page 48
Socio-economic status......Page 49
Year at school......Page 50
Summary: background characteristics and work attitudes and expectations......Page 51
4 The psychological impact of unemployment and unsatisfactory employment on young people......Page 53
RESULTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE LONGITUDINAL STUDY......Page 60
BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS......Page 62
1983......Page 63
1981......Page 64
1981......Page 65
1984......Page 66
1988......Page 67
1987......Page 68
1989......Page 69
1987......Page 70
1984......Page 71
1988......Page 72
Group differences......Page 73
Conclusions......Page 74
CROSS-SECTIONAL DATA......Page 77
Anomie......Page 78
OVERALL CONCLUSIONS......Page 79
5 Coping with unemployment......Page 82
THE EFFECTS OF POTENTIAL MODERATING VARIABLES AT TWO DIFFERENT AGES......Page 83
The younger sample......Page 84
Summary of findings......Page 86
OVERVIEW......Page 87
TIME USE AS A MODERATING FACTOR......Page 88
Unemployed group: first phase (1981–1983)......Page 89
Dissatisfied employed group: second phase (1984–1988)......Page 90
OTHER MODERATING FACTORS......Page 91
UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION......Page 92
Different results according to age......Page 95
CONCLUSIONS......Page 96
STAGE THEORY......Page 98
DEPRIVATION THEORY......Page 100
AGENCY THEORY......Page 101
VITAMIN MODEL......Page 103
ERIKSON’S LIFE-SPAN DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY......Page 106
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS THEORY......Page 107
WEINER’S ATTRIBUTIONAL THEORY......Page 109
EXPECTANCY-VALUE THEORY......Page 111
SUMMARY......Page 113
PREDICTORS OF UNEMPLOYMENT......Page 114
PREDICTION ON THE BASIS OF PERSONALITY......Page 116
OVERALL PREDICTION......Page 118
PREDICTION OF ENTRY INTO TERTIARY EDUCATION......Page 120
A NINE-YEAR FOLLOW-UP OF ACADEMICALLY CAPABLE SCHOOL LEAVERS......Page 123
OVERALL SUMMARY......Page 124
EARLY STUDIES......Page 125
RECENT STUDIES......Page 127
PSYCHOLOGICAL ILL HEALTH IN YOUNG ADULTS......Page 128
SUICIDAL IDEATION AND BEHAVIOUR......Page 130
CONCLUSIONS......Page 136
DRUG USE......Page 138
ALCOHOL......Page 140
Predictors of alcohol abuse......Page 142
CIGARETTE SMOKING......Page 143
ILLICIT DRUGS......Page 144
MEDICATIONS......Page 145
Health and employment......Page 146
POVERTY......Page 147
Poverty and employment......Page 148
SUMMARY......Page 149
Work attitudes......Page 151
Psychological well-being......Page 153
Leaving school......Page 154
The individual response......Page 155
The school response......Page 156
The societal response......Page 158
Policy implications......Page 160
Methodological strengths and weaknesses......Page 163
FINAL COMMENTS......Page 164
Appendix......Page 166
References......Page 185
Name index......Page 200
Subject index......Page 205