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Title: Underemployment and Depression in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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Dooley, David Prause, JoAnn |
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Underemployment and Depression in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Psychological Association Meeting, August 1998 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA) Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; CESD (Depression Scale); Depression (see also CESD); Employment; Self-Esteem; Underemployment Although the economy has recovered from the recession of the early 1990s, there are signs of dissatisfaction in the present labor market. Globalization, restructuring, and outsourcing have helped lower both the sense of employment security of many workers and the real earnings of the low income sector of the work force. Recent findings have suggested that economically inadequate jobs can produce social costs such as decreased self-esteem and increased alcohol abuse similar to those of unemployment. The present study tests the hypothesis that controlling for prior depression, change to less adequate employment is associated with elevated depression. The data for these analyses come from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), specifically the 1992 and 1994 surveys, which collected the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale. The NLSY has followed a nationally representative sample of individuals born in the United States between 1957 and 1964 with annual reinterviews and a near 90% retention rate. Approximately 9,000 NLSY respondents were available for analysis by 1994 when they were in their late 20s and early 30s. In addition to depression, the NLSY includes standard employment status items that permit classifying respondents each year as adequately employed (above poverty wages either full time or voluntarily part time), underemployed (either involuntary part time or poverty wages), unemployed (either actively looking for work or wanting work but too discouraged to look), or out of the labor force. In addition to controlling for such variables as gender, age, ethnicity, and educational level, the analyses will include economic context as operationalized by unemployment rate in the respondent's community. The discussion of this study will be aimed at broadening our conceptualization of economic stressors from a dichotomy (working versus not working) to a continuum of varying employment statuses. |
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Dooley, David and JoAnn Prause. "Underemployment and Depression in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth." Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Psychological Association Meeting, August 1998. |