Job loss, identity, and mental health /

Job loss, identity, and mental health /

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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. Job Loss, Identity...

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Main Author: Norris, Dawn R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Unemployment > Social aspects > United States.
Unemployment > United States > Psychological aspects.
Unemployed > Mental health > United States.
Job stress > United States.
Identity (Psychology)
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Table of Contents:
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Why Identity?
  • 3. "That's Not the Way We Do It at Gentay". Feedback Mismatches
  • 4. "I Wasn't the Same Person". Time Mismatches
  • 5. "Me Caveman ... I Club Deer". Status Mismatches
  • 6. "On the Mommy Track". Shifting
  • 7. "It Was Like I Was Still Working". Sustaining
  • 8. "Like You're Dead and Nobody Told You". Identity Void
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Methodology
  • Appendix B. Additional Considerations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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