Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom.
Health Place. 2013 Sep;23:1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2013.04.004. Epub 2013 Apr 29.
This study investigates whether the unemployment rate of the area in which an individual lives affects their level of psychological distress, and the extent to which this is dependent on their own labour market status. Data were taken from the British Household Panel Survey (1991-2008) and longitudinal multiple membership multilevel modelling was carried out in order to account for the complex hierarchical structure of the data. The results suggest that living in an area with a high unemployment rate, defined by the claimant count, confers a degree of protection against the negative psychological effects of unemployment. However, psychological distress levels among unemployed people were still significantly and substantially higher than among their securely employed counterparts.
本研究调查了个体所在地区的失业率是否会影响他们的心理困扰程度，以及这种影响在多大程度上取决于他们自己的劳动力市场地位。数据来自英国家庭面板调查（1991-2008 年），并进行了纵向多重成员多层次建模，以说明数据的复杂层次结构。结果表明，生活在以失业人数定义的高失业率地区，会对失业的负面影响产生一定程度的保护。然而，失业人群的心理困扰水平仍然明显且大大高于有稳定工作的人群。
