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This two-stage longitudinal aimed: i) to assess the effect of duration of unemployment on labour market attachment; ii) to assess the effect of duration of unemployment on psychological well-being; iii) to determine the moderators of i) and ii), including social networks, social supports and pressures.
Main Topics:
i) Sex, ethnic group and personal histories of unemployment, employment and special measures. ii) Job search and aspirations. iii) Labour market attitudes, and disaffection. iv) Psychological well-being, health and personality. v) Social supports, networks and pressures. vi) Subcultural features of unemployment. vii) Area differences. viii) Prediction of success in finding employment. ix) Training aspirations. x) Perceptions of the unemployed. Standard Measures: i) General health Questionnaire, Zung Depression and Anxiety, sociability and achievement orientation measures. ii) Item batteries on: employment commitment, unemployment orientation, labour market disaffection, job search attitude, attitudes to employment. iii) Composite scales of social pressures and supports. For a full account of origin of the measures see Warr P.B., Banks M.H. and Ullah P.B. (1985) 'The experience of unemployment among black and white urban teenagers' British Journal of Psychology 76, p.75-87.
A) A sample of registered unemployed 17 year olds was drawn from 11 urban areas in England. All members were required to have left school appromimately 12 months earlier (in the spring or summer of 1981) at the minimum school-leaving age of 16, with no more than two `O' levels or CSE equivalents. All had been unemployed for at least four weeks and none was registered disabled. Potential respondents were contacted outside Unemployment Benefit Offices and Careers Offices, and through youth clubs and centres for unemployed people. The final sample contained males and females, whites and West Indians. B) The follow-up sample was boosted by the inclusion of 550 young people, with the same characteristics
Face-to-face interview
Psychological measurements
