RT journal article
T1 Unemployment Syndrome during COVID-19: A Comparison of Three Population Groups
A1 Bocchino, Anna
A1 Gilart Cantizano, Ester
A1 Cabrera Román, Inmaculada
A1 Lepiani, Isabel
K1 unemployed syndrome scale
K1 COVID-19
K1 symptoms
AB Introduction: Of the serious problems that characterise the current crisis in Spain, the mostalarming and revealing is unemployment, which, despite being so common, continues to be quitea negative experience for most people, often with serious negative effects on their biopsychosocialhealth. The perpetuation of this situation has given rise to a new syndrome of the unemployed. Ifthese effects of economic downsizing are accompanied by the magnitude of the current situationbrought about by COVID-19, the results can be devastating for the individuals and families experiencingit. Objective: To compare the symptoms of the unemployed syndrome in three population groups.Method: Three groups were studied: short-term unemployed (n = 91), long-term unemployed (n =150), and those unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic (n = 94). Unemployment syndromewas assessed with the Unemployment Syndrome Scale (USS). The three population groups werecontacted through web pages, social networks, etc. and answered the instruments online in a singlesession. Once the responses were obtained, their information was encoded in a database and analysedthrough the SPSS v. 21 program. Population groups were compared using the ANOVA analysis andthe Bonferroni post hoc test. Results: The unemployed individuals who lost their job during thepandemic reported higher scores in the symptoms of the Unemployed Syndrome Scale comparedto the long- and short-term unemployed individuals. ANOVA analyses for symptoms of USS wereall significant in the different groups considering a significance level of <0.005. Participants whowere unemployed for less than one year had lower scores in the USS than the long-term unemployedparticipants and those unemployed during the COVID-19 pandemic that reported a significantlyhigher number of symptoms in the USS.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2021
FD 2021-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25635
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/25635
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026