A comment on dowling and O'Brien's “employed” and “unemployed” groups
- 1 April 1983
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 35 (1) , 89-90
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00049538308255307
Abstract
The single criterion of current employment status used by Dowling and O'Brien (1981) to define “employed” and “unemployed” groups is questioned. The two groups may have differed little in mean duration of unemployment, which may account for their similarity on mean “work values”.Keywords
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