(SOCIO)Recession and well-being_Tausing and Fenwick
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 one of the first examples of research linking economy to mental illness | Brenner's analysis of association between New York State employment index and mental hospital admissions from 1910-60 |
| data from | quality of employment panel study (QES) |
| VARIABLES | -sociodemographic characteristics -occupational and labor market positions -personal employment history of workers |
| dependent variables | distress and dissatisfaction |
| question asked in this article | how much do recessions affect the well-being of a population and what does it mena? |
| increases in job demands and perceptions of increasingly inadequate pay | increase in dissatisfaction |
| recession is seen as ''event generator'' that increases individual risk for distress through exposure to stressors -how macroeconomic changes affect individuals | - |
| this paper emphasizes importance of structural or systematic risk | systematic risk emphasizes that well-being levels change because contextual conditions change, not because individuals are exposed to negative experiences |
| recession represents a macrostructural change in economic and social relationships, thereby, widely affect well-being | ... |
| they analyze 1974-75 recession | this period was distinguished by a simultaneous rise in unemployment and inflation -POSSIBLE that perceptions of inadequate pay for predicting dissatisfaction is related to the inflationary aspect of this particular recession |
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