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Unemployment benefits, job search activity and mental health: discouraging or buffering effects?
- Author:
- MALMBERG-HEIMONEN Ira
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 25(1), 2005, pp.2-16.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
The modern welfare state forms an important buffer against individual market risks, but has become less effective. Changes are being made in labour market policies generally by restricting access to unemployment benefits and by linking benefits to job search activity. Nevertheless, the effects of these changes are in many cases inconsistent and minor. This study investigates whether unemployment benefits have an impact on job search patterns and whether they are associated in some way with the risks of mental health problems. The study included young unemployed 18-24 year-olds from four countries including Sweden, Finland, Germany and Spain.
Betting on a different horse: a qualitative analysis of mental health in health promotion policies
- Authors:
- SOLIN Pia, LEHTO Juhani
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 3(3), September 2004, pp.8-17.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Aims to analyse the position and role of mental health in health promotion policy. Policy documents from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, England and Portugal indicate that, although mental health is considered a serious issue, it is problematic in policy terms. Arguments make the case for the importance of mental health within the health promotion agenda, including the classification of mental illness as a public health problem, socio-economic and individual costs of mental health problems, and the view that mental wellbeing is a crucial element of overall health. However, problems of definition and measurement, and a traditional focus on treatment and care, continue to make mental health promotion problematic for policy makers.
Childhood physical abuse and emotional neglect are specifically associated with adult mental disorders
- Authors:
- SALOKANGAS Raimo K. R,., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 29(4), 2020, pp.376-384.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Background: Childhood adversities and trauma (CAT) are associated with adult mental disorders. Nevertheless, although CAT of different domains mostly co-occurs, and co-morbidity is common, the associations between CAT and mental disorders, when taking these interrelations into account, are not well known. Aims: the researchers aimed to study differential associations between the five core domains of CAT and current axis-I disorders, taking into consideration their interrelations. Methods: Four hundred and fifteen outpatients attending adult primary (n = 255) and psychiatric care (n = 160) were assessed with the Trauma and Distress Scale (TADS) and the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI). Associations between CAT core domains and diagnostic categories were examined by path analyses. Results: At least some infrequent experience of CAT (83.6%), mostly of neglect, and current mental disorders (49.4%), mostly depression, was frequent, as were co-morbidities and co-occurrence of CAT domains. Considering these interrelations in a path model of excellent fit, physical abuse predicted depressive, manic, psychotic and anxiety disorders, whereas emotional neglect predicted depressive, anxiety and substance misuse disorders. Conclusions: Of all five CAT core domains, physical abuse and emotional neglect had the strongest association with adult psychiatric disorders and might have transmitted earlier reported main effects of other CAT domains onto mental disorders. (Edited publisher abstract)
Sense of coherence and social support - Resources for subjective well-being and health of the aged in Finland
- Authors:
- ELOVAINIO M., KIVIMAKI M.
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 9(2), April 2000, pp.128-135.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines whether the psychological and social resources of aged people (over 75 years) in Finland predict their subjective well-being and experienced state of health. Based on previous research on younger people we formed a model where morbidity, experienced quality of social support and sense of coherence together with economic resources are the predictors of both experienced state of health and subjective well-being. The model providing the most parsimonious explanation of the data suggested that a strong sense of coherence and high experienced quality of social relationships are strongly related to subjective well-being. Experienced state of health was associated with morbidity and subjective well-being, but there was no significant relationship between subjective well-being and morbidity.
Are worries, satisfaction with oneself and outlook in secondary school students associated with mental health in early adulthood?
- Authors:
- KINNUNEN Pirjo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 12(2), May 2010, pp.4-10.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The aim of this study was to identify factors in adolescence which are associated with mental health problems in early adulthood. In the long term study, data on worries, satisfaction with oneself and future outlook were collected from 235 14 year old adolescents (116 girls, 119 boys) in 1996 using a structured questionnaire. Subjects were part of a larger project carried out in two Finnish secondary schools in Eastern Finland. Mental health data were collected via a postal questionnaire from the same subjects as the age of 24 years using the SCL-90 instrument. The questionnaire was returned by 149 young adults (63.4%), 88 females and 61 males. Mental health problems were common in early adulthood; 42% of females and 22.9% of males exceeded the clinical cut-off of 0.9 for symptoms in at least two dimensions of the SCL-90. Adolescents’ worries about family finances and conflicts at home were associated with mental health problems in later life in both genders. Worries about achievement at school and parental unemployment in females, and lack of friends and busy parents in males, were associated with mental health problems at the age of 24. The authors conclude that adolescents’ perceptions of their worries, satisfaction with oneself and outlook are important factors to consider in attempts to promote mental health.
Mental health in Finland
- Authors:
- LAHTI Pirkko, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Breakthrough, 2(3), 1998, pp.51-55.
Looks at mental health in Finland, current legislation, the growth of the user movement and the influence of the Finnish Association for Mental Health. Also discusses the European project which was designed to help socially and economically marginalised young people find work.