Differing effects of coping strategies on mental health during prolonged unemployment: A longitudinal analysis
通过三轮纵向调查，研究了长期失业中求职和情感疏离两种应对策略对心理健康的因果效应及其持续时间，发现情感疏离的积极影响比求职的消极影响更持久。
A three-wave longitudinal design was used to examine the causal effects of two coping strategies in the context of prolonged unemployment, namely job search and distancing (i.e. emotional detachment from unemployment), on mental health and the duration of these effects. Two situational appraisals, namely economic hardship and unemployment negativity (i.e. perceived negativity of unemployment life) were found to influence both coping strategies and mental health. We confirmed that the negative effect of job search on mental health was primarily owing to the two situational appraisals, especially unemployment negativity. In contrast, the positive effect of distancing on mental health was significant, even after the situational appraisals were taken into account. In addition, the positive effect of distancing on mental health lasted longer than the negative effect of job search.