Quality of Life Among Young Finnish Adults not in Employment or Education

Kivijärvi, Antti; Aaltonen, Sanna; Forma, Leena; Partanen, Jussi; Myllylä, Martta; Rissanen, Pekka

doi:10.1007/s11482-018-9687-z

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“…Individuals with an illness were probably impeded from work and reported a lower well-being than the healthy and working respondents. As pointed out by Kivijarvi et al (2020), loneliness and financial difficulties are probably the main mediators of the negative effects of bad health and unemployment on SWB. Even though we did not find a statistically significant impact of education or family situation (Partner or Child) on life satisfaction in our sample, Birkeland et al (2014) found in a longitudinal analysis of 998 Norwegian individuals that living with a partner was associated with high life satisfaction at age 30.…”

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Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care

Mabille

Skoglund

Thørnblad

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Child & Family Social Work

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This study examines how history of care, on one hand, and social support, on the other hand, predict satisfaction with life after leaving care by focusing on a sample of young adults raised in foster care in Norway. When aged between 19 and 29, youths answered questionnaires that mapped their past history of care, living conditions, social relationships and life satisfaction. Results show that the 70 respondents had experienced a relatively stable history of care (mean number of placements ± SD:1.7 ± 0.9) and reported life satisfaction scores similar to those measured in the general population (23.3 ± 7.0, mean ± SD). Placement stability (P = 0.001) and a high satisfaction with foster home (P = 0.030) were related to a higher life satisfaction. Moreover, having good social support, that is, persons that you can count on in case of major personal problems (P < 0.001) and a good contact with the foster family (P = 0.005), was associated with a higher satisfaction with life. Several health-related variables and the working status were also linked to life satisfaction. Our work highlights the need to focus on promoting placement stability and a good relationship to the foster family in order to enhance well-being after leaving care.

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Section: Living Conditions and Relation To Life Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care

Mabille

Skoglund

Thørnblad

et al. 2021

Child & Family Social Work

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“…The difficulties related to school-to-work transition generally seem to lead to youth psychological distress, anxiety, and maladaptive behavior (Parola et al, 2019;Stea et al, 2019) that might eventually contribute to their low life satisfaction and poor mental health (Forma et al, 2017;Kivijärvi et al, 2019). Cao et al (2020) suggested that young people may be at the highest risk for mental illnesses due to the COVID-19, regardless of their experience with the novel coronavirus.…”

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Are you scared of what comes next? Students' future career anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic

2022

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In the present study, we explored the mediating effects of depression from COVID-19 (DEP-COVID) and self-esteem (S-EST) on the relationship between fear of COVID-19 (F-COVID) and future career anxiety (C-ANX) in high-school and university students (N = 470, M = 20.17, SD = 2.02, 63.04% females). We were interested in exploring these relationships in both the overall sample and high school students and university students, separately. Our findings suggested that DEP-COVID partially mediated the relationship between F-COVID and C-ANX in both groups (i.e., high-school and university students). Self-esteem was not significantly correlated to our primary variables in high-school students. In university students, as well as the overall sample, results suggested the partially mediating role of S-EST on the relationship between fear of COVID-19 and C-ANX. We discuss our findings concerning the practices that may foster students' career development in turbulent times and consider possible interventions for these specific groups following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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“…International literature confirms that spells of long‐term unemployment are often reflected in relatively low levels of both objective and subjective wellbeing (Kivijärvi et al. 2019). The practical indicators of this can include poor health outcomes, depression, reduced self‐esteem, and feelings of frustration and even despair (Hilbrecht et al.…”

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Precarious labour in Mpumalanga, South Africa: A case study of informally employed day labourers in Mbombela and Emalahleni

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Precarious employment is becoming more prevalent again in the developed world while being widespread in developing economies. Day labour is precarious wage work that is emerging and re-emerging in the global North and South. Within the global South context, we explore the socio-economic and labour market outcomes of day labourers in Mpumalanga. A comparable multi-case study research design reveals day labourers' precarious existence: low and uncertain incomes, struggle to provide for dependents, low levels of subjective well-being and structural vulnerability. The results reflect differences between a more diversified economy (Mbombela) and one subject to the mining industry's boom and bust cycles (Emalahleni). Social policy must be reconsidered to adhere to the South African government's developmental state vision.

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Quality of Life Among Young Finnish Adults not in Employment or Education

Cited by 13 publications

References 30 publications

Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care

Placement stability and satisfaction with foster home as predictors of life satisfaction for young adults raised in foster care

Are you scared of what comes next? Students' future career anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic

Precarious labour in Mpumalanga, South Africa: A case study of informally employed day labourers in Mbombela and Emalahleni

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