Journal article
Job loss and depression: The role of subjective expectations
Social science & medicine (1982), Vol.72(4), pp.576-583
02/01/2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.014
PMCID: PMC3684950
PMID: 21183267
Abstract
Although the importance of expectations is well documented in the decision-making literature, a key shortcoming of the empirical research into effects of involuntary job loss on depression is perhaps its neglect of the subjective expectations of job loss. Using data from the US Health and Retirement Study surveys we examine whether the impact of job loss on mental health is influenced by an individual's subjective expectations regarding future displacement. Our results imply that, among older workers in the age range of 55-65 year, subjective expectations are as significant predictors of depression as job loss itself, and ignoring them can bias the estimate of the impact of job loss on mental health. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Job loss and depression: The role of subjective expectations
- Creators
- Bidisha Mandal - Washington State UniversityPadmaja Ayyagari - Yale UniversityWilliam T. Gallo - City University of New York
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social science & medicine (1982), Vol.72(4), pp.576-583
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.014
- PMID
- 21183267
- PMCID
- PMC3684950
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
- eISSN
- 1873-5347
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- R01AG027045 / National Institute on Aging; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute on Aging (NIA) Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity at Hunter College
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Record Identifier
- 9984364395802771
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