Unemployment and Nonwork Activities among Persons with Higher Education

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Abstract
This article reports a study of the relationship of employment status to participation in various nonwork activities, the relationship between duration of unemployment and the level of such participation, and the possibility that participation in nonwork activities moderates the psychological impact of unemployment. Using as its population highly educated unemployedpersons in Israel aged27-47years, a two-wave survey was conducted (N = 432). Comparing the responses to the first and second questionnaires, the author analyzed cross-sectional comparisons between those who had and had not become reemployed when they returned the second questionnaire and examined the changes in the levels of nonwork activity and psychological well-being of the respondents that had occurred between their responses. The author found unemployment to be associated with increased participation in certain nonwork activities, and that the level of participation in some activities is positively correlated with psychological well-being. No clear evidence indicated, however, that participation in nonwork activities moderates the relationship between employment status andpsychological well-being.

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