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The perceived impact of unemployment on psychological well-being among unemployed young people in Worcester

机译:失业对伍斯特失业青年心理健康的影响

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Unemployment among young, less-educated coloured individuals is a major problem in the community of Worcester in the Western Cape. The purpose of the research study is to gain in-depth insight into the impact of unemployment on psychological well-being among young coloured people in Worcester. The study is based on a qualitative approach by conducting semi-structured interviews with twelve unemployed, coloured persons in Worcester. The ages of the participants ranged from 18 to 30 years, with the median age of 20.33 years. Purposive sampling and snowball techniques were used to select these unemployed young persons. Two instruments, a demographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview guide, were used to gather data on the research participants. The transcribed data were analysed by means of content thematic analysis and aided by thematic network analyses. The findings of the study suggest that unemployed participants experience negative feelings daily as a result of their unemployment. Some participants blamed themselves for previous mistakes that they had made, they feel a sense of failure to provide for their children's needs as parents, they expressed feelings of guilt or shame, and compared themselves with employed peers, which is indicative of low self-esteem. Furthermore, unemployment has a financial impact on participants which includes financial dependency on others, unemployment serving as a barrier to being able to fulfil future plans and aspirations as well as unemployment having an effect on the social life of participants in that participants appear to withdraw from social interaction and isolate themselves. For some participants there was a loss of a sense of purpose experiencing difficulties in structuring their time and generally spent their time with passive and purposeless activities. Despite being unemployed, certain other participants seek a sense of purpose and try to spend their time engaging in menial tasks or social activities. Participants expressed an overall positive attitude towards employment which includes regarding work as being very important as well as remaining optimistic about their chances of finding a job. Coping with unemployment daily emerged as one of the struggles experienced by the participants in the study. The process of coping with unemployment daily includes utilising a variety of coping strategies to manage their unemployment as well as to manage negative feelings that emerge from being unemployed. The coping strategies indicated by the participants include listening to music, sleeping, reading the Bible, and talking to their friends or family members. Participants also revealed that they needed and received two types of social support from family and friends to help them cope with their unemployment predicament; including a need for emotional support and a need for instrumental support. Participants in the study experienced judgment by community and family members daily because of their unemployed status which includes stigmatising comments. These comments are internalised by participants which may exert a negative impact on their psychological well-being. Limitations of the study includes, participants could have answered the questions of the semi-structured guide in a socially desirable manner as well as the audio-recorded interviews were transcribed into Afrikaans and translated into English and as such, some of the meaning of what the participants had said could have been lost in the translation process. Recommendations for further research includes exploring whether perceived support have a greater beneficial effect on the psychological well-being of unemployed individuals than received support, as well as the role such types of support play in coping with unemployment.
机译:在西开普省伍斯特社区,年轻的,受过较少教育的有色人种的失业是一个主要问题。本研究的目的是深入了解伍斯特市有色人种中失业对心理健康的影响。该研究基于定性方法,对伍斯特的十二名失业的有色人种进行了半结构化访谈。参与者的年龄为18至30岁,中位年龄为20.33岁。目的抽样和滚雪球技术被用来选择这些失业的年轻人。人口统计问卷和半结构化访谈指南这两种工具被用来收集研究参与者的数据。通过内容主题分析对转录数据进行分析,并通过主题网络分析进行辅助。该研究的结果表明,失业的参与者每天因失业而会产生负面情绪。一些参与者将自己以前的错误归咎于自己,他们感到无法满足父母的子女需求,表达了内或羞耻感,并与同龄人进行了比较,这表明自卑。此外,失业对参与者产生财务影响,包括对他人的财务依赖,失业成为实现未来计划和愿望的障碍,以及失业影响参与者的社会生活,因为参与者似乎退出了社交互动并孤立自己。对于一些参与者来说,失去了一种目的感,在安排时间上遇到困难,并且通常将他们的时间花在被动和无目的的活动上。尽管有些人失业,但其他一些人仍会寻求目标感,并尝试花费时间从事琐碎的工作或社交活动。与会者对就业表示总体上积极的态度,其中包括认为工作非常重要以及对找到工作的机会保持乐观。每天应对失业问题成为研究参与者经历的斗争之一。每天应对失业的过程包括利用各种应对策略来管理他们的失业以及管理因失业而产生的负面情绪。参与者指出的应对策略包括听音乐,睡觉,阅读圣经以及与朋友或家人交谈。参与者还透露,他们需要并获得家人和朋友的两种社会支持,以帮助他们应对失业困境;包括需要情感支持和工具支持。该研究的参与者由于其失业状态(包括带有侮辱性的评论)而每天都要经历社区和家庭成员的判断。这些评论已被参与者内部化,可能会对他们的心理健康产生负面影响。研究的局限性包括,参与者可能以一种社会上可取的方式回答了半结构指南的问题,并且录音采访被转录成南非荷兰语并翻译成英语,因此,参与者曾表示可能会在翻译过程中迷路。进行进一步研究的建议包括:探索支持是否对失业人员的心理健康产生的影响要大于获得支持,以及此类支持在应对失业中的作用。

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