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Depressive symptoms as a cause and effect of job loss in men and women: evidence in the context of organisational downsizing from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, October 2015
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Title
Depressive symptoms as a cause and effect of job loss in men and women: evidence in the context of organisational downsizing from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health
Published in
BMC Public Health, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-2377-y
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Elena Andreeva, Linda L. Magnusson Hanson, Hugo Westerlund, Töres Theorell, M. Harvey Brenner

Abstract

Few studies have examined depression as both a cause and effect of unemployment, but no prior work investigated these relationships in the context of organisational downsizing. We explored whether the exposure to downsizing is associated with subsequent depression (social causation), and whether pre-existing depression increases the risk of being laid off when organisations downsize (health selection). Two successive waves of the nationally representative Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health represented the baseline (2008) and follow-up (2010) of this study. Analyses included 196 workers who lost their jobs through downsizing, 1462 layoff survivors remaining in downsized organisations and 1845 employees of non-downsized workplaces. The main outcomes were: (1) Depressive symptoms at follow-up, assessed with a brief subscale from the Symptom Checklist 90, categorised by severity levels ("major depression", "less severe symptoms" and "no depression") and analysed in relation to earlier downsizing exposure; (2) Job loss in persons with downsizing in relation to earlier depressive symptoms. The associations were assessed by means of multinomial logistic regression. Job loss consistently predicted subsequent major depression among men and women, with a somewhat greater effect size in men. Surviving a layoff was significantly associated with subsequent major depression in women but not in men. Women with major depression have increased risks of exclusion from employment when organisations downsize, whereas job loss in men was not significantly influenced by their health. The evidence from this study suggests that the relative importance of social causation and health selection varies by gender in the context of organisational downsizing. Strategies for handling depression among employees should be sensitive to gender-specific risks during layoffs. Policies preventing social exclusion can be important for female workers at higher risk of depression.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 125 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 22 17%
Student > Master 16 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 9%
Researcher 8 6%
Other 26 21%
Unknown 30 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 25 20%
Social Sciences 17 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 6%
Other 19 15%
Unknown 33 26%
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