Department of People and Organizations, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey.
Department of International Business and Strategy, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
J Appl Psychol. 2019 Sep;104(9):1195-1206. doi: 10.1037/apl0000393. Epub 2019 Feb 18.
Previous research shows that unemployment has lasting detrimental effects on individuals' subjective well-being. However, the issue of how well-being evolves after individuals switch back into the labor force has received little theoretical and empirical attention. This study examines the extent to which reemployment restores individuals' subjective well-being following a period of unemployment. Applying fixed effects models to the large-scale longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that recovery of subjective well-being upon reemployment is fast, complete and enduring, even when individuals take less favorable employment options to return to work. By contrast, transitions into economic inactivity following unemployment are accompanied by persistent scars on subsequent well-being trajectories. This study advances our understanding of well-being development over the entire employment-unemployment-reemployment cycle. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
先前的研究表明，失业对个人的主观幸福感会产生持久的不利影响。然而，人们重返劳动力市场后幸福感如何演变这一问题，很少受到理论和实证的关注。本研究考察了就业对失业后个人主观幸福感的恢复程度。我们运用固定效应模型，对英国家庭面板调查的大规模纵向数据进行分析，结果发现，重新就业后主观幸福感的恢复速度很快、彻底且持久，即使人们为了重返工作岗位而选择了不太理想的就业选择。相比之下，失业后进入非经济活动状态会对随后的幸福感轨迹产生持续的影响。本研究增进了我们对整个就业-失业-再就业周期内幸福感发展的理解。（美国心理协会，2019 年）
