Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Disguised Unemployment and Changing Forms of Work
- 2 The Social Costs of Unemployment
- 3 Data Sources and Methods
- 4 Reverse Causation: Findings on the Selection Hypothesis
- 5 Leaving School: Self-esteem in an Unwelcoming Economy
- 6 Early Adulthood: Alcohol Misuse and Underemployment
- 7 Settling Down: Psychological Depression and Underemployment
- 8 Extending the Employment Continuum: Well-Being in Welfare Transitions
- 9 The Next Generation: Underemployment and Birthweight
- 10 Conclusions
- 11 New Directions
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
7 - Settling Down: Psychological Depression and Underemployment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Disguised Unemployment and Changing Forms of Work
- 2 The Social Costs of Unemployment
- 3 Data Sources and Methods
- 4 Reverse Causation: Findings on the Selection Hypothesis
- 5 Leaving School: Self-esteem in an Unwelcoming Economy
- 6 Early Adulthood: Alcohol Misuse and Underemployment
- 7 Settling Down: Psychological Depression and Underemployment
- 8 Extending the Employment Continuum: Well-Being in Welfare Transitions
- 9 The Next Generation: Underemployment and Birthweight
- 10 Conclusions
- 11 New Directions
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Summary
We have slowly come to realize that periodical idleness as well as the payment of wages insufficient for maintenance of the manual worker in full industrial and domestic efficiency stand economically on the same footing with the ‘sweated’ industries, the overwork of women, and employment of children. But of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heart-breaking as unemployment, …
Jane Addams, 1910, pp. 220–221INTRODUCTION
Background
Depression and Stress. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (1994) (DSM-IV), major depressive disorder is characterized by at least one two-week long episode of depressed mood accompanied by at least four additional symptoms, such as feelings of worthlessness and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide. Psychological depression is a major public mental health problem affecting approximately 17 million Americans each year (Jacobs, Kopans, & Reizes, 1995). The lifetime prevalence of major depression has been estimated in the range of 10% to 25% for women and 5% to 12% for men with the point prevalence estimated in the range of 5% to 9% for women and 2% to 3% for men (American Psychiatric Association, 1994).
This disorder can appear at any age, but the average age at onset is the mid-twenties, near the beginning of the age range of the NLSY respondents in 1992. This is a recurring disorder, with half or more of those individuals with major depressive disorder expected to have a second episode.
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- The Social Costs of UnderemploymentInadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment, pp. 134 - 157Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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