Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Work. 2022;72(1):211-220. doi: 10.3233/WOR-205228.
The negative consequences of job loss on financial and psychological quality of life have been well documented.
This study evaluated the level of unemployed individuals' embitterment and the mechanism by which negative life experiences increase embitterment by lowering the belief in a just world (BJW).
A survey was administered to 1,074 unemployed Korean adults who visited a regional Center for Employment and Welfare. Question items included the Korean version of posttraumatic embitterment disorder (PTED) self-rating scale, the BJW (personal and general) scale, negative life events, and sociodemographic characteristics.
Only 45.9% of the participants were categorized as being in a 'normal state,' indicating that many of the unemployed were emotionally embittered. There was a positive direct effect of an increase in negative life events on embitterment. Negative life events also significantly and indirectly affected embitterment through personal BJW.
Embitterment was prevalent among the unemployed participants and embitterment was a reactive emotion following personal downgrading, not so much related to conditions in the world at large. Thus, we recommend developing a screening program to detect extreme embitterment and an interventional program to help people better cope with emotional stress due to job loss. Efforts should be made to restore their violated expectation and trust that they would be treated in a just and fair way.
失业对财务和心理生活质量的负面影响已得到充分证实。
本研究评估了失业者的痛苦程度，以及通过降低对公正世界的信念（BJW）来增加消极生活经历导致痛苦的机制。
对 1074 名访问地区就业和福利中心的韩国失业成年人进行了一项调查。问题项目包括创伤后痛苦障碍（PTED）自评量表的韩语版本、BJW（个人和一般）量表、消极生活事件和社会人口学特征。
只有 45.9%的参与者被归类为“正常状态”，这表明许多失业者情绪上感到痛苦。消极生活事件的增加对痛苦有正向直接影响。消极生活事件也通过个人 BJW 显著且间接地影响痛苦。
失业参与者中普遍存在痛苦情绪，痛苦是个人降级后的反应性情绪，与整个世界的状况关系不大。因此，我们建议制定一个筛查方案来检测极端痛苦，并制定一个干预方案来帮助人们更好地应对失业带来的情绪压力。应努力恢复他们受到侵犯的期望和信任，即他们将得到公正和公平的对待。
