Unemployment and Family Structure
The Sociological and Psychological Affective Dimensions of Unemployment on Family Structure
Human society has forces that sometimes create balances and imbalances among individuals within the society. With this premise, it can be said that some changes within the social structure may be beneficial to an individual and detrimental for the other. Indeed, one illustration of these imbalances in the society is the negative, or non-beneficial, effects of unemployment of an individual on his/her family. Although unemployment may be best viewed as an economic issue, the social and psychological effects that it brings to the individual and society makes it an essential issue to be discussed in the domains of sociology and psychology.
This paper aims to identify the relationship between unemployment and its affective nature on the family structure and posit that, there is a significant relationship between the two, wherein unemployment leads to the weakening of the family structure and decrease in self-esteem of the individual. Further, factors influencing family dissolution and low self-esteem or psychological well-being due to unemployment are also discussed. These objectives are achieved through study of related literature on the said topic. The texts that follow discuss the negative effect of unemployment on the individual and society (family) through the development of low self-being (esteem) and weakening of family ties, respectively.
K. Briar-Lawson et. al. (2001), on their study on family well-being...
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