British researchers reported that men is going to be hit harder than women through the recessions gripping economies all over the world, as job insecurity threatens a natural feeling of masculinity and damages mental health, Reuter’s reported.
Even though more women than males are losing their jobs in great britan because of the recession, men that think they might be fired or laid off are likely to become more stressed and depressed than women, based on the Cambridge University study.
The study discovered that the effects of job insecurity would have a greater toll on men’s health than that of their female counterparts as the economic slowdown continues.
Dr. Brendan Burchell in the University of Cambridge’s sociology department, who compiled the study, said it was aided by the macho issue concerning men being “the breadwinner” in a family.
“Men, unlike women, have few positive methods for defining themselves outside the workplace between when they leave school and when they retire,” Burchell said.
However, despite several decades more equal employment opportunities for males and ladies, men retain traditional beliefs their masculinity is threatened if their employment is threatened, he added.
A poll released earlier in the year showed that women, a lot more than men, reported being worried about the possibility of losing their jobs.
Though men may placed on a braver face, the research found that job insecurity causes more the signs of depression and anxiety in males compared to women.
When unemployed men transfer to insecure jobs, they showed no improvement in psychological health, according to data from 300 current British employees, coupled with market research of thousands of people through the Economic and Social Research Council charting the results of social and economic change since the early 90’s.
By contrast, even finding an insecure job helped to revive psychological health for many unemployed women.
The long-term decline in mental health can also be even more bad for those who are under threat of losing their jobs than for those people who are actually made redundant, Burchell said.
“Given that most economic forecasts predict the recession will be long with a slow recovery, the results mean that many people and men particularly could be getting into a period of prolonged and growing misery,” he added.
