Stages in the psychological response to unemployment: A (dis)integrative review |
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Authors: | David Fryer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Abstract: | There are widespread assertions in the literature on the psychological effects of unemployment that the response to job loss
takes the form of qualitatively distinct stages or phases. This review gives an exposition of the main stage accounts, suggests
reasons why such accounts appear compelling, and reveals what is entailed by the decision to hold such an account. When this
is made clear the empirical evidence for a stage-by-stage account of unemployment experience is seen to be ambivalent at best.
Most evidence is seriously flawed. Stage accounts are further criticized for inconsistency, internal contradictions, nonspecificity
of domain, overindividualism, and restrictive ethnocentricity. It is suggested that evidence apparently supportive of stage
accounts may be partly artifactual. Stage accounts are not recommended. |
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