Introduction to the psychological effects of youth unemployment: international perspectives

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Unemployment has risen in most countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OED), and has especially hit young people. Young people are seen as less likely to be distressed by unemployment than are adults, but there are concerns relating to youth unemployment. These include the effect on their psychological and social development, risk of suicide or involvement in crime, and failure to develop a work ethic. Studies of youth unemployment are not always easy to interpret, and this is partly because of the difficulty of assessing whether low self-esteem and other problems are the cause of or caused by unemployment.

Editorial, Youth, Unemployment

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Exposure to violence, depression, and hostility in a sample of inner city high school youth

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Research undertaken among students at a public high school in upper Manhattan, New York City, NY, has sought to examine the prevalence of traumatic violence within this population and to establish the impact of exposure to traumatic violence on levels of depression and hostility among students. It was found that male students were more likely to suffer exposure to violence than their female counterparts, but that female students were more likely than male students to suffer greater distress symptoms following exposure to violence. There is a close link between exposure to violence and incidence of depression and hostility.

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Psychological distress, work attitudes and intended year of leaving school

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High school teenagers experience great amounts of stress and anxiety during their senior year and even in their second and third high school years due to uncertainties of employment and continuing education after graduation. The hypothesis that stress level increased during the last 3 years was not true, and the use of baseline measures was justified. The conclusion was that a decade of persisting high levels of unemployment among the youth was the reason for the high levels of stress.

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