Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Soc Sci Med. 2012 Nov;75(10):1891-4. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.07.024. Epub 2012 Aug 6.
Although socioeconomic status (SES) has been to shown to be associated with susceptibility to involuntary job loss as well as with health, the ways in which individual SES indicators may moderate the job loss-health association remain underexplored. Using data from the Americans' Changing Lives study, we estimate the ways in which the association between job loss and depressive symptoms depends on five aspects of SES: education, income, occupational prestige, wealth, and homeownership. Our findings indicate that higher SES prior to job loss is not uniformly associated with fewer depressive symptoms. Higher education and lower prestige appear to buffer the health impacts of job loss, while financial indicators do not. These results have a number of implications for understanding the multidimensional role that social inequality plays in shaping the health effects of job loss.
尽管社会经济地位（SES）已被证明与非自愿失业的易感性以及健康有关，但个体 SES 指标在多大程度上可能缓和失业与健康之间的关联仍未得到充分探索。利用美国人生活变化研究的数据，我们估计了失业与抑郁症状之间的关联取决于 SES 的五个方面：教育、收入、职业声望、财富和住房拥有率。我们的研究结果表明，失业前 SES 较高并不总是与较少的抑郁症状相关。较高的教育水平和较低的职业声望似乎可以缓冲失业对健康的影响，而财务指标则没有。这些结果对理解社会不平等在塑造失业对健康影响的多维作用具有重要意义。
