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M Frese

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PubMed1987

Alleviating depression in the unemployed: adequate financial support, hope and early retirement.

Results of a longitudinal study on older blue-collar workers in the Federal Republic of Germany (Soc. Sci. Med. 25, 173-178, 1987) showed that people who retired out of unemployment improve in depression similar to those people who found a job. Furthermore, financial problems and disappointed hope were important in the development of depression in the unemployed. These results are relevant for measures to alleviate depression in the unemployed in three areas: early retirement and an increase of financial unemployment compensation are recommended. Furthermore, all those programs (like counseling or therapeutic programs) that increase hope to find a job without increasing the chances to find a job have to be viewed with skepticism because they might actually turn out to be dysfunctional.

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PubMed1984

Shiftwork and the length and quality of sleep.

Previous investigators have reported that amount and quality of sleep are reduced in the shiftworker. The finding that night and morning shifts lead to shortened sleeping hours is replicated in this study. Overall sleeping time, however, was not found to be different for workers on different shift schedules or for shiftworkers and nonshiftworkers. The correlation between length and quality of sleep was very low. Length of sleep was not predicted well by factors such as stress at work, noisiness of sleeping room, drinking coffee, and smoking cigarettes, although these and similar predictors were strongly related to quality of sleep. Shiftwork was found to have a consistent effect on quality of sleep, even when other variables were controlled. quality of sleep, even when other variables were controlled.

Coffee↗