Unemployment and psychosocial outcomes to age 30: A fixed-effects regression analysis

Fergusson, David M.; McLeod, Geraldine F. H.; Horwood, L. John

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“…The table shows that there was a statistically significant (p \ 0.001) main effect of gender for three life event domains: interpersonal problems, illness/death, pregnancy/parenthood; and combined across all domains. These analyses showed that women rated their experience of the 25), suggesting that the observed gender differences in reported distress did not vary with age at assessment. The regression models for the life event domains showing significant associations with gender in Table 2 were extended, in a sequential process, to adjust for mediation by (1) child/adolescent factors and (2) adult mental health and self-esteem (see ''Methods'').…”

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confidence: 82%

“…However, examination of gender by age interactions revealed no statistically significant interactions (all p values p [ 0. 25), suggesting that gender differences in the rate of life event reporting did not vary across ages of assessment. Table 2 shows the associations between gender and mean (SD) distress per life event reported at each age and pooled across observations at 30 and 35 years.…”

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confidence: 94%

“…At the 30 and 35 year assessments, respondents were questioned about life events that had occurred since the previous interview (at 25 35 year assessment. If an event was reported, the respondent was also asked ''How distressed were you from this event?''…”

Section: Life Events Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

“…At ages 30 and 35, cohort members were questioned about mental health problems during the previous 12 months, using questionnaires based on the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) [54] to assess DSM-IV symptom criteria [3] for a range of mental disorders (see [25]). These data were used to classify participants as to whether they had met DSM-IV criteria for the following disorders at ages 30 and 35: major depression, and anxiety disorder (generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia or specific phobia).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Life-stress and reactivity by gender in a longitudinal birth cohort at 30 and 35 years

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Life-stress and reactivity by gender in a longitudinal birth cohort at 30 and 35 years

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Horwood

Fergusson

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“…To our knowledge, no study investigated longitudinal associations between NEET youth with risky behaviors and mental health, although this design is required for the examination of causality and reverse causality [11]. This study aimed to fill in this gap within a sample of young Swiss men.…”

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Not in Education, Employment, or Training Status Among Young Swiss Men. Longitudinal Associations With Mental Health and Substance Use

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Iglesias

Deline

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Journal of Adolescent Health

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A B S T R A C TPurpose: Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET) youth are youth disengaged from major social institutions and constitute a worrying concern. However, little is known about this subgroup of vulnerable youth. This study aimed to examine if NEET youth differ from other contemporaries in terms of personality, mental health, and substance use and to provide longitudinal examination of NEET status, testing its stability and prospective pathways with mental health and substance use. Methods: As part of the Cohort Study on Substance Use Risk Factors, 4,758 young Swiss men in their early 20s answered questions concerning their current professional and educational status, personality, substance use, and symptomatology related to mental health. Descriptive statistics, generalized linear models for cross-sectional comparisons, and cross-lagged panel models for longitudinal associations were computed. Results: NEET youth were 6.1% at baseline and 7.4% at follow-up with 1.4% being NEET at both time points. Comparisons between NEET and non-NEET youth showed significant differences in sub-stance use and depressive symptoms only. Longitudinal associations showed that previous mental health, cannabis use, and daily smoking increased the likelihood of being NEET. Reverse causal paths were nonsignificant. Conclusions: NEET status seemed to be unlikely and transient among young Swiss men, associated with differences in mental health and substance use but not in personality. Causal paths presented NEET status as a consequence of mental health and substance use rather than a cause. Additionally, this study confirmed that cannabis use and daily smoking are public health problems. Prevention programs need to focus on these vulnerable youth to avoid them being disengaged.

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Searching for a job: Cardiac responses to acute stress and the mediating role of threat appraisal in young people

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Being unemployed and looking for a job has become a source of stress for many people in several European countries. However, little attention has been paid to the impact of this stressful situation on the individuals' psychophysiological stress responses. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of being an unemployed job seeker on cognitive threat appraisal and cardiac responses to a psychosocial stressor. We exposed a group of unemployed job seekers (N = 42) and a matched group of unemployed non-job seekers (N = 40) to a standardized social stressor in form of job interview, the Trier Social Stress Test. Our results showed that unemployed job seekers manifest lower cardiac responses, along with a lower cognitive threat appraisal, compared to non-job seekers. Moreover, we observed a full mediating role of cognitive threat appraisal on the relationship between being an unemployed job seeker and cardiac responses to stress. These findings reveal that being unemployed and looking for a job has an effect on physiological responses to acute stress, as well as the importance of psychological process related to the situation. These responses might lead to negative health and motivational consequences. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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Unemployment and psychosocial outcomes to age 30: A fixed-effects regression analysis

Abstract: The findings of this study suggest that exposure to unemployment had small but pervasive effects on psychosocial adjustment in adolescence and young adulthood.

Cited by 51 publications

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Life-stress and reactivity by gender in a longitudinal birth cohort at 30 and 35 years

Life-stress and reactivity by gender in a longitudinal birth cohort at 30 and 35 years

Not in Education, Employment, or Training Status Among Young Swiss Men. Longitudinal Associations With Mental Health and Substance Use

Searching for a job: Cardiac responses to acute stress and the mediating role of threat appraisal in young people

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