UNEMPLOYMENT AND COPING WITH STRESS, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION
UNEMPLOYMENT AND COPING WITH STRESS, ANXIETY, AND DEPRESSION

Summary/Abstract: Unemployment represents one of the possible significant losses which is a problem concerning many surveys with biological, psychological, social, and cultural approaches. Many psychological surveys, especially labour psychology ones, focus on the anxiety, stress, and depression experienced by the unemployed people. A significant role in the presence and the intensity of these emotional disorders is played by the resources and the strategies of individual and situational coping. The objective of our paper is to tackle these issues using hte data from our own survey. Our survey was created to evaluate the connection between the type of coping and the levels of stress, anxiety and depression for the unemployed people. The group that participated in the survey consisted in 208 persons (102 men and 106 women), aged between 20 and 65 years, from the urban area, being unemployed, selected using the method of simple random sampling. A cross-sectional survey was performed, using the following research instruments: a psychiatric interview in order to notice whether there are important mental disorders that require a special attention, DASS-21R Scale, in order to evaluate level of stress, anxiety and depression and brief COPE Scale. Our resuls show that the levels of stress, anxiety and depression for the unemployed people are influenced by the type of coping. Moreover, we found that persons with coping focused on issue have the least levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.

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