Unemployment and its association with health-relevant actions: investigating the role of time perspective with German census data

Reinhard Schunck and Benedikt Rogge

International Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol. 55, issue 4, 278 pages

Abstract: Unemployment is negatively associated with health-relevant actions. This effect varies according to persons’ time perspectives. Our approach delivers an innovative view on why unemployed individuals exercise more health-damaging actions than the employed. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel/Switzerland 2010

Keywords: Health behaviour; Unemployment; Smoking; Obesity; Action theory; Time perspective (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-0075-1

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