Psychological well-being and reactions to multiple unemployment events: Adaptation or sensitisation?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 832-838

  Booker, Cara L ^a   Sacker, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84865989831     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.126755     Document Type: Article

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