Employment status, psychological needs, and mental health: Meta-analytic findings concerning the latent deprivation model.

ABSTRACT: Marie Jahoda's latent deprivation model proposes that unemployed people have a worse mental health compared to employed people. This is because they suffer not only from a lack of the manifest function of employment (earning money), but also from a lack of five so-called latent functions of employment: Time structure, social contact, collective purpose (i.e., the sense of being useful to other people), status, and activity. In order to test the basic assumptions of this theory, a study based on meta-analytic methods was conducted. Results showed that employed people reported higher levels on all five latent functions, as well as on the manifest function, compared to unemployed people. They also report more latent functions than people who are out of the labor force (OLF). Moreover, OLF-peo

SUBMITTER: Paul KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10017486 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature