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Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health (Paperback)
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Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health (Paperback)
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Our jobs are often a big part of our identities, and when we are
fired, we can feel confused, hurt, and powerless - at sea in terms
of who we are. Drawing on extensive, real-life interviews, Job
Loss, Identity, and Mental Health shines a light on the experiences
of unemployed, middle-class professional men and women, showing how
job loss can affect both identity and mental health. Sociologist
Dawn R. Norris uses in-depth interviews to offer insight into the
experience of losing a job - what it means for daily life, how the
unemployed feel about it, and the process they go through as they
try to deal with job loss and their new identities as unemployed
people. Norris highlights several specific challenges to identity
that can occur. For instance, the way other people interact with
the unemployed either helps them feel sure about who they are, or
leads them to question their identities. Another identity threat
happens when the unemployed no longer feel they are the same person
they used to be. Norris also examines the importance of the
subjective meaning people give to statuses, along with the strong
influence of society's expectations. For example, men in Norris's
study often used the stereotype of the ""male breadwinner"" to
define who they were. Job Loss, Identity, and Mental Health
describes various strategies to cope with identity loss, including
""shifting"" away from a work-related identity and instead
emphasizing a nonwork identity (such as ""a parent""), or
conversely ""sustaining"" a work-related identity even though he or
she is actually unemployed. Finally, Norris explores the social
factors - often out of the control of unemployed people - that make
these strategies possible or impossible. A compelling portrait of a
little-studied aspect of the Great Recession, Job Loss, Identity,
and Mental Health is filled with insight into the identity crises
that unemployment can trigger, as well as strategies to help the
unemployed maintain their mental strength.
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