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The persistence of depressive symptoms in older workers who experience involuntary job loss
— results from the Health and Retirement Survey | | Author(s) | William T Gallo, Elizabeth H Bradley, Joel A Dubin |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 61B, no 4, July 2006 |
| Pages | pp S221-S228 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Unpaid work [elderly] ; Redundancy ; Poor elderly ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The association between involuntary job loss among workers nearing retirement and long-term changes in depressive symptoms was investigated. Analysing data from the first four waves (1992-1998) of the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the authors used longitudinal multiple regression in order to assess whether involuntary job loss between waves 1 and 2 was associated with depressive symptoms at Waves 3 and 4. The study sample included 231 workers who had experienced job loss an the wave 1-wave 2 interval and a comparison group of 3324 non-displaced individuals. The effects of job loss on depressive symptoms, both in the full study sample and in sub-samples determined by wealth were analysed. Among those with below median net worth, Wave 1 - Wave 2 involuntary job loss was associated with increased depressive symptoms at Wave 3 and wave 4. No effect of involuntary job loss was found for high net worth individuals at the later survey waves. These findings identify older workers with limited wealth as an important group for which the potential effect of involuntary job separation in the years preceding retirement is enduring adverse mental health. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070504225 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: GH: WI: F:W6: 3J: 7T |
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