Original scientific paper

Effects of prolonged unemployment and reemployment on psychological and physical health

Zvonimir Galić orcid.org/0000-0001-5710-0975 ; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Branimir Šverko ; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to explore the impact of prolonged unemployment and reemployment on both psychological and physical health over a period of more than two years. In a three-way longitudinal survey of initially unemployed persons in Croatia, we examined the self-assessed physical and mental health, captured by the SF-36 Health Survey, as a group of unemployed persons moved into employment or remained unemployed. The results confirmed that only psychological health depends on the participant’s employment status, while physical health wasn’t related to prolonged unemployment or (re)employment.

Keywords

unemployment; (re)employment; psychological health; physical health

Hrčak ID:

40654

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/40654

Publication date:

16.12.2008.

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