Unemployment in Situation: a Psychosocial Study

Authors

  • Belinda Mandelbaum

Abstract

That paper carries out a psychosocial study on the repercussions of unemployment in poor workers and their families. After a presentation of some ideas from authors who participate in the contemporary debate on the theme (JAHODA, 1987; CASTEL, 1997; DEJOURS, 1999; FEITOSA DOS SANTOS, 2000), she shows some findings of her own research, carried out with the unemployed population attended at a Reference Center for Workers’ Health in the city of São Paulo, between 2000 and 2004. The findings discussion suggests that in face of the trauma provoked by the unemployment experience, the family tends to be the central nucleus of elaboration, the remaining territory for a personal re-organization of the new situational reality that unemployment generates, although it cannot meet the material and emotional demands that were previously supplied, even though precariously, by insertion in the work world.

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Published

2009-12-21

How to Cite

Mandelbaum, B. (2009). Unemployment in Situation: a Psychosocial Study. Revista Da ABET, 8(2). Retrieved from https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/abet/article/view/15267