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| Impact of husbands' involuntary job loss on wives' mental health, among older adults | | Author(s) | Michele Siegel, Elizabeth H Bradley, William T Gallo |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 58B, no 1, January 2003 |
| Pages | pp S30-S37 |
| Keywords | Redundancy ; Husbands ; Mental health [elderly] ; Mental disorder ; Wives ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Evidence indicates that older workers incurred higher rates of involuntary job loss in the recession of the early 1990s than younger workers. The authors used longitudinal data from the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) for 1992, 1994 and 1996 to test the hypothesis that wives of older workers are particularly likely to suffer adverse mental health consequences after their husbands had been laid off. Results indicate that husbands' involuntary job loss did not have a statistically significant effect on wives' mental health. Indeed, the authors found no evidence that changes in a husband's depressive symptoms modified the effect of his job loss on a wife's mental health. However, evidence was found that the effect of husbands' job loss on wives' mental health appears to be magnified when wives report being financially satisfied pre-job loss. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030212207 A |
| Classmark | WI: SNA: D: E: SNW: 3F: 7T |
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