Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the Community
Unemployment and Mental Health: Hazards and Challenges of Psychology in the Community
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失业与心理健康：社区心理学的危害与挑战
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10.1007/0-306-47181-7_3
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
D. Fryer
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D. Fryer
有令人信服的证据表明，在80多年的大规模社会变革、不同的国家、研究方法的复杂性和不同的价值假设中，失业和心理健康障碍之间存在社会因果关系和个人漂移关系。面临失业负面心理影响风险的人数令人震惊，而且通常被大大低估。也有理由相信，失业对更多的人产生负面影响，而不仅仅是那些实际失业的人。鉴于失业的规模及其对心理健康的负面影响，预防或减少心理成本的干预措施显然很重要。然而，许多，也许是大多数，实际干预措施似乎在心理影响方面存在问题，关于失业导致心理健康问题的主要心理学解释在各个层面上存在一些严重问题。有人建议，需要新的方法来概念化和调查失业的心理问题，为了解决损害就业和失业人员的心理健康的条件，很可能有必要重新设计不仅是许多就业人员的不合格的工作，但也失业人员的工作。
There is persuasive evidence for both social causal and individual drift relationships between unemployment and mental health disorders over 80 years of massive social change, differing countries, vastly increasing research method sophistication and differing value assumptions. The number of people at risk of negative psychological effects of unemployment is appalling and usually greatly underestimated. There are also grounds for believing that unemployment negatively affects far more people than just those who are actually unemployed. Given the scale of unemployment and its negative consequences on mental health, interventions to prevent or reduce the psychological costs are clearly important. However many, perhaps most, actual interventions seem problematic regarding their psychological impacts and the dominant psychological account of what it is about being unemployed which causes mental health problems has a number of serious problems at a variety of levels. It is suggested that new ways of conceptualising and investigating the psychological problems of unemployment are needed and that in order to address the conditions which damage the mental health of both employed and unemployed people, it may well be necessary to redesign not only the substandard jobs of many employed people but also the jobs of unemployed people too.