Unemployment, social support and health complaints: A longitudinal study of stress in East German refugees
作者:
R. Schwarzer,
M. Jerusalem,
A. Hahn,
期刊:
Journal of Community&Applied Social Psychology
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 4,
issue 1
页码: 31-45
ISSN:1052-9284
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1002/casp.2450040109
出版商: John Wiley&Sons, Ltd.
关键词: Physical symptoms;migrants;life crisis;social support;stress;health
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractMigrants have to deal with a number of stressors, among them tenacious job search and the constitution of a new social network. Prolonged unemployment and lack of social support can result in impaired health. A sample of 235 East Germans was investigated at three times during two years following their transition to West Berlin in 1989, after the breakdown of the communist system. The majority found a job during this time and succeeded to adapt psychosocially. Those, however, who remained unemployed were worse off in terms of self‐reported health. This stress—health relationship was moderated, however, by social support. Within the group of migrants who suffered from long‐term joblessness, social support exerted a longitudinal buffer effect. At Wave 3, frequent physical symptoms were reported only by migrants who neither held a job nor received support. In a longitudinal causal model, the employment status affected mainly health complaints, but also social support. The relationship between health and support was found to be reciprocal over
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