Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: The Existential Experience of Loss and Fear
Work and Unemployment in the Time of COVID-19: The Existential Experience of Loss and Fear
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DOI：
10.1177/0022167820934229
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发表时间：
2020-06-17
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Guarino, Paige A.
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作者：
Blustein, David L.;Guarino, Paige A.
本文探讨了COVID-19大流行带来的大规模失业所引发的生存损失、焦虑和恐惧。在这场健康危机到来之前，劳动力中日益严重的不平等和边缘化被视为一个主要的先决条件，为现在定义这个时代的失业危机奠定了基础。概述了最佳工作可以满足的需求的性质，其中包括生存，社会联系/贡献和自决。因此，失去工作与存在恐怖的概念有关，这种概念抓住了生存的情感需要以及管理破坏生存的威胁的心理后果的需要。然后提出了减轻失业及其伴随的恐怖感的影响的建议，其中包括系统性干预，关系和心理治疗支持，以及个人应对策略
This article explores the existential loss, anxiety, and terror that is evoked by the massive unemployment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Growing inequality and marginalization in the workforce prior to the advent of this health crisis is reviewed as a major antecedent that set the stage for the unemployment crisis that now defines this era. An overview of the nature of the needs that working optimally can fulfill is presented, which include survival, social connection/contribution, and self-determination. The loss of work is then connected to the notion of existential terror, which captures the emotional imperative to survive as well as the need to manage the psychological consequences of threats that undermine existence. Suggestions for mitigating the impact of job loss and its attendant sense of terror are then presented, which include systemic interventions, relational and psychotherapeutic support, and individual coping strategies