Study: Bad Work - More Stressing Than Unemployment

Researchers from the National University Centre for Mental Health in Australia are on this topic, while more than 70,000 Australians have participated in the research.

Research has lasted more than seven years and has been seen how working conditions affect the mental health of respondents.

The active work population has been researched for symptoms of depression, nervousness, and how often they have felt calm and happy in the preceding month.

Research participants have also asked them about working conditions, including how many checks and flexibility they have, how complex and difficult their duties are, how certain they are of their job and what their opinion is about the real wage.

After considering the various factors that may affect the outcome, such as education and marital status, researchers have noted a linear relationship between the mental health of the worker and the quality of their workplace. Those with flexible and safer jobs had better mental health.

However, it has been found that even people who are unemployed have the same mental health as those with a bad job and, most of the time, even better.

In addition, research published in the magazine “Occupational and Environmental Medicine” has shown that the mental health of the unemployed improves after they find a good job, while dramatically deteriorates as they start working in a bad place.