{"id":586,"date":"2009-03-10T10:48:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T16:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=586"},"modified":"2009-03-08T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T17:03:24","slug":"men-are-more-prone-to-economic-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/03\/10\/men-are-more-prone-to-economic-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"men are more prone to economic anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Mark McLaughlin on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/51035737977@N01\/2263857424\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2355\/2263857424_6f298da90e_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Hall 8\" \/><\/a>Late last week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6aec60ce-099a-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1\">Financial Times (UK)<\/a> ran a story about how men are more &#8216;prone to credit crunch blues&#8217; than women in the same situation. The story is focused on men who think they might lose their jobs, who become more depressed and anxious than women. This assessment comes out of a study from Cambridge University sociologist Brendan Burchell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times reports,\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This anxiety reflected males\u2019 \u201cmacho\u201d belief about \u201cmen being the breadwinner\u201d, said Brendan Burchell, the Cambridge sociologist who carried out the research. \u201cMen, unlike women, have few positive ways of defining themselves outside of the workplace between when they leave school and when they retire,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from Burchell:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The stress and anxiety of people who had become unemployed \u201cbottomed out\u201d after about six months as they adapted to their new circumstances. By contrast, people who had not lost their jobs but thought they might be fired showed steadily worsening mental health for one to two years.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Burchell said: \u201cGiven that most economic forecasts predict that the recession will be long with a slow recovery, the results mean that many people \u2013 and men in particular \u2013 could be entering into a period of prolonged and growing misery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on possible solutions, Mr Burchell stressed the need \u201cto restabilise the City\u201d \u2013 adding a mental health angle to the well-rehearsed economic arguments for shoring up the banking system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6aec60ce-099a-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1\">Read on<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last week, the Financial Times (UK) ran a story about how men are more &#8216;prone to credit crunch blues&#8217; than women in the same situation. The story is focused on men who think they might lose their jobs, who become more depressed and anxious than women. This assessment comes out of a study from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[36,131,39114,39113,121],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-gender","tag-health","tag-mental"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}