Unemployment as a Factor Influencing Mental Well-being

To develop an adequate employment policy is hardly possible without consideration of the psychosocial state of the unemployed. Therefore, not only is the statement of individual peculiarities significant, but also the definition of typical regularities, which allows to choose the most effective forms of psychological assistance and support. This paper addresses the results of the cluster analysis of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test profiles of the unemployed and employed women in order to construct the most typical profiles of the unemployed women and to define the most optimal directions of psychological assistance. Those personality profiles which were identified in the MMPI polling were classified using the methods of the cluster analysis. The participants of the study were 50 employed women and 298 unemployed women, most of whom were students of re-qualification courses at two educational institutions in Riga. The constructed personality profiles were grouped into 5 clusters. This paper provides characteristics for each cluster and offers recommendations for psychologists, pedagogues and other professionals who engage in re-qualification training of the unemployed or provide other services to the unemployed.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2017.01.066
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705817300668
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/18777058
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2017 Ishgaley Ishmuhametov and Anna Palma. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
• Authors:
  • Ishmuhametov, Ishgaley
  • Palma, Anna
• Conference:
  • 16th International Scientific Conference Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (RelStat-2016)
  • Location: Riga , Latvia
  • Date: 2016-10-19 to 2016-10-22
• Publication Date: 2017

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: pp 359-367
• Serial:
  • Procedia Engineering
  • Volume: 178
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-7058
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18777058
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Cluster analysis; Females; Personality; Psychological aspects; Unemployment
• Identifier Terms: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
• Uncontrolled Terms: Well being
• Subject Areas: Economics; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01632944
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 9 2017 1:52PM