Recession Has Been Hardest On Men's Mental Health
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 18:31
in Psychology & Sociology
The economic downtown that began in 2008 has been hardest on the mental health of men in England - yet it isn't the actual unemployment and falling household income the authors blame. They blame the threat of losing their jobs in a society that places an unrealistic level of pressure on males to be the breadwinners.They base their findings on data taken from the national representative annual Health Survey for England for adults aged 25 to 64, between 1991 and 2010. Response rates during the period varied from 85 per cent in 1991 to 64 per cent in 2008, and included almost 107,000 people. read more