Ytterdahl T, Fugelli P
Seksjon for sosialmedisin, Universitetet i Oslo.
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2000 Apr 30;120(11):1308-11.
Many studies have shown an association between unemployment and poor health.
This cross-sectional survey from 1993-94 using structured interviews and questionnaires describes health and quality of life among 148 long-term unemployed in Lillesand, Norway.
Compared with the general population, somatoform conditions and anxiety symptoms were twice as common among the unemployed, and depression three times as common. There was a higher frequency of depression among unemployed men than among unemployed women. The unemployed had a lower quality of life score than the general population; the difference was more than twice as large among men as among women. Unemployed aged 30-39 reported the strongest symptoms of anxiety and depression.
The reason why unemployed men are more often stricken by depression and report lower quality of life than women, may be that men experience the job-loss more existentially threatening than do women.
许多研究表明失业与健康状况不佳之间存在关联。
这项1993 - 1994年的横断面调查采用结构化访谈和问卷，描述了挪威利勒桑德148名长期失业者的健康状况和生活质量。
与普通人群相比，躯体形式障碍和焦虑症状在失业者中出现的频率是普通人群的两倍，抑郁症则是三倍。失业男性中抑郁症的发生率高于失业女性。失业者的生活质量得分低于普通人群；男性的差异比女性大两倍多。30 - 39岁的失业者报告的焦虑和抑郁症状最为强烈。
失业男性比女性更容易患抑郁症且生活质量更低，原因可能是男性比女性更能感受到失业对生存的威胁。
