http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/03/16/job-mental-health-unemployment-stress.html
"Work-first policies are based on the notion that any job is better than none as work promotes economic as well as personal well-being."
"Psychosocial job quality is a pivotal factor that needs to be considered in the design and delivery of employment and welfare policy." Study authors
The psychosocial quality of work determines whether employment has benefits for mental health: results from a longitudinal national household
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Occupational & Environmental Medicine
What this paper adds:
- Because employment is associated with better mental health than unemployment, policy has focused on the risk posed by joblessness, although there is evidence that poor quality jobs can erode mental health.
- Our study compares the effects of unemployment and employment in jobs with poor psychosocial job quality, and uses longitudinal data to investigate employment transitions.
-We find that jobs with poor psychosocial attributes are no better, and may have even more adverse effects on mental health, than unemployment.
-These findings suggest that gaining employment may not necessarily lead to improvement in mental health and well-being if psychosocial job quality is not considered.
Time for a little humour!
