Job loss and depression: The role of subjective expectations

Mandal, Bidisha; Ayyagari, Padmaja; Gallo, William T.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.014

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“…Several studies have identified a link between recessions and mental health. For example, Mandal et al (2011) show that in addition to actual job loss, subjective expectations of future job loss are predictive of depression among older adults. McInerney et al (2013) find that the large wealth losses associated with the October 2008 stock market crash resulted in declines in subjective mental health measures.…”

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2015

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“…A variety of psychiatric conditions including depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder have been associated with years-long trait-like reactions to loss of something valued including a loved one (Turvey et al, 1999), pregnancy (Gong et al, 2013), an attachment relationship including marriage (Distel et al, 2011; Stalker and Davies, 1995), a job (Mandal et al, 2011), a capability such as vision (Zhang et al, 2013) or hearing (McDonnall, 2009), resources (Luyster et al, 2006), hair (Schmitt et al, 2012), or an expected reward (Huston et al, 2013). Repetitive thinking about what was lost, and about associated negative feelings has been identified with the transformation of loss into profound and often very negative outcomes (Nolen-Hoeksema et al, 1994).…”

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Prolonged physiological reactivity and loss: Association of pupillary reactivity with negative thinking and feelings

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D’Andrea

Jones

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Prolonged psychophysiological reactions to negative information have long been associated with negative thinking and feeling. This association is operationalized in the RDoC negative affect construct of loss, which is nominally indexed by prolonged physiological reactivity, cognitive loss-related constructs such as rumination and guilt, and more feeling-related constructs such as sadness, crying, and anhedonia. These associations have not been tested explicitly. If thinking and feeling aspects of loss reflect different physiological mechanisms, as might be suggested by their putative neurobiology, different intervention pathways might be suggested. Here we examined the extent to which self-reported negative thinking and feeling constructs were associated with prolonged pupillary reactivity following negative words and a subsequent cognitive distractor in a diverse heterogeneously diagnosed sample of N = 84 participants. We also considered indices of abuse and variables associated with borderline personality disorder as possible moderators. Consistently, feeling-related negative affect constructs were related to prolonged pupillary reactivity during the distractor after a negative stimulus whereas thinking-related constructs were not. These data suggest that people who have sustained physiological reactions to emotional stimuli may be more strongly characterized by non-linguistic negative feelings than explicit cognitions related to loss. Sustained physiological reactions could reflect efforts to regulate feeling states. In contrast to cognitive and affective variables, abuse was associated with decreased physiological reactivity, consistent with decreased neural engagement. Interventions that target mechanisms underlying feelings and their regulation may be more mechanistically specific to sustained reactivity than those which directly address cognitions.

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“…However, layoffs and firing are likely to be endogenous (e.g., due to worker incompetence), and the use of these measures may have biased earlier findings (Charles and Stephens 2004; Dooley, Fielding, and Lennart 1996; Gibbons and Katz 1991; Hu and Tabor 2005; Weiss 1995). In contrast, business closings are more typically occasioned by external influences, such as an organizational decision to restructure or relocate business units (Brand, et al 2008; Mandal, et al in press). Note that one cannot conclusively state that business closures are exogenous events.…”

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The effect of job loss on overweight and drinking

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This paper examines the impact of job loss due to business closings on body mass index (BMI) and alcohol consumption. We suggest that the ambiguous findings in the extant literature may be due in part to unobserved heterogeneity in response and in part due to an overly broad measure of job loss that is partially endogenous (e.g. layoffs). We improve upon this literature by using: exogenously determined business closings, a sophisticated estimation approach (finite mixture models) to deal with complex heterogeneity, and national, longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study. For both alcohol consumption and BMI, we find evidence that individuals who are more likely to respond to job loss by increasing unhealthy behaviors are already in the problematic range for these behaviors before losing their jobs. These results suggest the health effects of job loss could be concentrated among “at risk” individuals and could lead to negative outcomes for the individuals, their families, and society at large.

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Job loss and depression: The role of subjective expectations

Cited by 63 publications

References 31 publications

Does prescription drug coverage improve mental health? Evidence from Medicare Part D

Does prescription drug coverage improve mental health? Evidence from Medicare Part D

Prolonged physiological reactivity and loss: Association of pupillary reactivity with negative thinking and feelings

The effect of job loss on overweight and drinking

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