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For Unemployed, Length, Scale of Job Search Affects Wellbeing

Regarding worsening underemployment and unemployment see Gallup March 3, 2011 report

Life ratings, emotional wellbeing of the unemployed drops after 10 weeks of job searching

by Elizabeth Mendes and Lydia Saad

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The longer Americans are unemployed, the more jobs they apply for, and the more interviews they go on, the less likely they are to rate their lives well enough to be considered “thriving.” Worry, sadness, stress, anger, and diagnoses of depression all also increase significantly among the unemployed who report longer, more drawn out job searches.

Less than 4 in 10 unemployed adults (34%) who have been searching for a job for 11 weeks or more rate their lives well enough to be categorized as thriving, compared with 47% of those who have been looking for work for 10 weeks or less and 55% of all other national adults. Life ratings are also lower among the unemployed who have applied for 11 or more jobs or gone on 11 or more job interviews.

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