Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2016.11.012

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“…In social-cultural terms, unemployment is considered a deviation from the norm in societies that value work (Carroll, 2007;Helliwell & Huang, 2014). It has also been found to negatively impact people's ability to engage in leisure and social activities, the formation of interpersonal relationships, childbearing, and family development (Choudhury, 2017;Kunze & Suppa, 2017). In this direction, it has been posited that whereas being unemployed may relate to low psychological wellbeing, it is the social norm that may explain the differences in psychological wellbeing among the unemployed and other members of society (Helliwell & Huang, 2014).…”

Section: Employment Status Ambiguity and Psychological Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maintaining High Eudaimonic Wellbeing Despite Ambiguity Intolerance Among Three Employment Status Groups: Examining the Buffering Effects of Positive Psychological Attributes

Baluku

Bantu

Namale

et al. 2021

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

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The unemployed, as well as individuals in self and salaried employment, face several work-related risks and uncertainties which can result in diminished psychological wellbeing especially for individuals with high ambiguity intolerance. However, positive psychology literature suggests that individuals with strong psychological resources can be resilient in difficult circumstances. Using a sample of 922 individuals (including 240 unemployed, 391 salary-employed, and 291 self-employed) from Uganda and Kenya, we investigated the moderating effects of locus of control and psychological capital on the association between ambiguity intolerance and eudaimonic wellbeing, comparing the unemployed with individuals in salaried and self-employment. Our findings indicated that ambiguity intolerance and external locus of control are negatively associated with eudaimonic wellbeing. Conversely, internal locus of control and psychological capital were positively associated with eudaimonic wellbeing. The moderation analysis revealed that whereas an external locus of control boosts the negative effects of ambiguity intolerance on eudaimonic wellbeing, internal locus of control and psychological capital buffer against the negative effects of ambiguity intolerance on eudaimonic wellbeing. Differences between employment status groups and implications are discussed.

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Section: Employment Status Ambiguity and Psychological Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Maintaining High Eudaimonic Wellbeing Despite Ambiguity Intolerance Among Three Employment Status Groups: Examining the Buffering Effects of Positive Psychological Attributes

Baluku

Bantu

Namale

et al. 2021

Int J Appl Posit Psychol

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“…Finally, results may suffer a endogeneity bias, e.g., lowering social participation may precede the unemployment spell or individuals may adapt to deprivation in social participation during their unemployment spell. However, Kunze and Suppa (2017) find little evidence in support of these possibilities.…”

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“…Like social or legal norms, the accessibility of places can affect fairly directly the achievement of social participation-largely independent of resources. Social norms may, however, also operate in more subtle or unconscious ways, e.g., through stigmatisation, which may induce behavioural responses (e.g., Kunze and Suppa, 2017). 13 An outcomebased measurement allows us to investigate these mechanisms more carefully.…”

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Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation

Suppa

2021

J Econ Inequal

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SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences:

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“…Overall, unemployment has been found to be associated with higher levels of loneliness than average (Peplau & Perlman 1982;Moisio & Rämö 2007). Further, previous studies have demonstrated how during unemployment individuals tend to have lower levels of social participation, and withdraw from public activities into private relationships (Dieckhoff & Gash 2015;Kunze & Suppa 2017).…”

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The links between structural and social marginalisation – social relations of young Finnish adults not in employment or education

Välimäki

Kivijärvi

Aaltonen

2019

Journal of Youth Studies

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This paper focuses on the social attachments and detachments of 16-to 29-year-old young adults who are not in employment or education, and consequently not part of the sociability related to work or school. While the characteristics of this group tend to be well documented, there is less empirical research on their social relations. Here, the aim is to explore the interlinkages between young adults' structural and social marginalisation through an analysis that draws upon two types of interlinked datasets: follow-up surveys and online group discussions conducted among a sample of young adults recruited from targeted youth services during 2017-2018. Leaning on empirical evidence, the paper argues that structural marginalisation is associated with the social marginalisation of young adults. With the use of both quantitative and qualitative data, the paper provides new youth-specific insights into the arguments made in the previous literature on financial constraints and stigma as mechanisms between structural and social marginalisation.

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Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation

Cited by 63 publications

References 74 publications

Maintaining High Eudaimonic Wellbeing Despite Ambiguity Intolerance Among Three Employment Status Groups: Examining the Buffering Effects of Positive Psychological Attributes

Maintaining High Eudaimonic Wellbeing Despite Ambiguity Intolerance Among Three Employment Status Groups: Examining the Buffering Effects of Positive Psychological Attributes

Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation

The links between structural and social marginalisation – social relations of young Finnish adults not in employment or education

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