{"id":2167,"date":"2015-04-02T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.blog.beta.careerarc.com\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2024-02-20T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T18:30:08","slug":"3-psychological-effects-of-long-term-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intoo.com\/us\/blog\/3-psychological-effects-of-long-term-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Unemployment: 3 Psychological Effects You Shouldn&#8217;t Neglect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Gallup conducted a survey to study the psychological effects of long-term unemployment and found some startling new data:<\/p>\n<h2>1. Depression<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Long-term unemployed are more than 3x likely to be\u00a0depressed than full-time unemployed.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While only 5.6% of Americans employed full-time say they currently have or are being treated for depression, this rate more than doubles for unemployed Americans, jumping to 12.4%. However, <strong>the depression rate among the long-term unemployed<\/strong> \u2014 individuals seeking work for 27 weeks or more \u2014 <strong>shoots up to 18.0%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Isolation<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Long-term unemployed are more likely to isolate themselves from friends and family than short-term unemployed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When respondents were asked to tally how long they had socialized with friends and family \u2014 including email and online communication \u2014 <strong>31.1% of the long-term unemployed reported spending only two hours or less with family or friends<\/strong> the previous day, compared to 21.5% among short-term unemployed adults.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2171 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/chart.jpg\" alt=\"gallup survey\" width=\"405\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/chart.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.intoo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/chart-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/>3. Pessimism<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The longer Americans remain unemployed, the less likely they are to believe they will find a job within the next 4 weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among those who had been jobless for only three-to-five weeks, 30.6% did not believe they would find a job within the next month; however, among those who had been jobless for 52 weeks or more, <strong>this pessimistic outlook was shared by a whopping 71.3%<\/strong> of respondents.<\/p>\n<h3>The Psychological &amp; Economic Quicksand of Joblessness<\/h3>\n<p>The psychological distresses associated with joblessness are not particularly new, but observing how these symptoms heighten and persist among the long-term unemployed over time sheds new light into the jobless trap many struggle to escape.<\/p>\n<p>If joblessness can more likely lead to depression \u2014 a condition which makes it even harder to land a job \u2014 <strong>we must ask ourselves how we can break the cycle of joblessness quicker, and help get the unemployed back to work, faster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<pre>By Tallulah David<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Gallup conducted a survey to study the psychological effects of long-term unemployment and found some startling new data: 1. 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