Adiler Kozhoev
AW5—Christman
Essay/Final Draft
Topic: Job loss effects on mental health
19/02/2015
The loss of a job in the current economic situation is one of the urgent problems. This
phenomenon is quite extensive and attracts interest not only to economists, but also sociologists
and psychologists. The job loss is significant issue which directly effects on many people’s
health and lifestyle. On the one hand, unemployment results in processes occurring in the entire
economy, on the other, it has an impact that is felt across the entire economy. There are several
common features in determining the status of the unemployed: working age, the lack of
permanent source of income, proven human desire to find a job. People who lose jobs meet these
criteria.
People tend to consider the loss of job as a result of their own professional incompetence.
At the same time negative circumstances that appear get ignored, underestimated and beyond the
control of man. Such a crisis situation overcomes every time different. In case of unemployed
