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      Unemployment, underemployment, and mental health: conceptualizing employment status as a continuum.

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      American journal of community psychology
      Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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          The economy is one of the most important social environments that affect well-being, and community psychologists have long studied the social costs of one key economic stressor--job loss. But economically inadequate employment has received much less research attention than unemployment in regard to mental health effects. This paper contrasts these two literatures and considers factors that might account for their differential growth including actual rates of unemployment and underemployment. Recent panel studies offer no support for another possible basis for this differential growth--the assumption that inadequate employment is more like adequate employment than unemployment. Implications of a paradigm shift from a dichotomous perspective (employment vs. unemployment) to a continuum perspective with variations of both unemployment and employment are discussed for research and prevention. Another implication is the need to expand standard labor force statistics to reflect better the degree of underemployment.

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          Journal
          Am J Community Psychol
          American journal of community psychology
          Springer Science and Business Media LLC
          0091-0562
          0091-0562
          Sep 2003
          : 32
          : 1-2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA. cddooley@uci.edu
          Article
          10.1023/a:1025634504740
          14570431
          e2dec1d7-bb6e-4c08-89f9-83e1cd526ab2
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