The City University of New York, NY, USA.
Vital Statistics Consulting, Short Hills, NJ, USA.
J Appl Gerontol. 2021 Oct;40(10):1272-1279. doi: 10.1177/0733464820921082. Epub 2020 Jun 13.
Job loss is a stressful life event that is associated with changes in somatic, behavioral, and affective well-being. This cohort study investigates whether social support and social integration moderate the relationship between job loss and mental health.
Data from four waves of the Americans' Changing Lives data set were collapsed into three wave-pairs. Our sample comprised 1,474 observations, from which we identified 120 job losses. We applied longitudinal regression models in benchmark moderation analysis; finite mixture modeling was then applied to investigate complex heterogeneity.
Our findings suggest that social support, and not social integration, buffered the involuntary job loss-depressive symptoms relationship among a subgroup of individuals who were more likely to be White, higher educated, and have higher social support prior to job loss.
Policies that incentivize education, promote financial and health literacy, and strengthen families may reduce vulnerability to the mental health effects of job loss.
失业是一种压力性的生活事件，与躯体、行为和情感健康的变化有关。本队列研究调查了社会支持和社会融合是否调节失业与心理健康之间的关系。
将来自“美国人生活变化数据”四个时间点的数据合并为三个时间点对。我们的样本包括 1474 次观察，从中确定了 120 次失业。我们在基准调节分析中应用了纵向回归模型；然后应用有限混合模型来调查复杂的异质性。
我们的研究结果表明，社会支持，而不是社会融合，缓冲了在失业前更有可能是白人、受教育程度更高、社会支持更高的一部分人的失业-抑郁症状关系。
鼓励教育、促进金融和健康知识普及以及加强家庭的政策可能会降低失业对心理健康的影响的脆弱性。
