Research on the psychological consequences of unemployment
Third party funded individual grant
Start date : 01.10.2016
End date : 31.03.2017
Project details
Short description
Funding from the Ilse and Dr. Alexander Mayer Foundation made it possible to carry out intensive panel maintenance for the Nuremberg longitudinal study on the psychological effects of unemployment between October 2016 and March 2017. This study, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), investigates, among other topics, in particular, deprived needs and incongruent values as possible causes of the mental suffering of the unemployed.
Scientific Abstract
Funding by the Ilse and Dr. Alexander Mayer Foundation made it possible to carry out intensive panel maintenance for the Nuremberg longitudinal study on the psychological effects of unemployment between October 2016 and March 2017. This study, funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), has a special focus on "deprived needs and incongruent values as possible causes of the distress of unemployed people". One goal of panel maintenance was to motivate participants to remain in the study during the time between the data collection phases and the associated break in the survey. Another goal was to record any address changes of participants that may have occurred in the meantime (participants received the paper-pencil questionnaires by mail). For example, the project team sent personalized cards with Christmas and New Year greetings to the participants by mail. If people could no longer be reached at their previous address, their new address was then researched by e-mail and/or telephone so that the personalized card could be sent to them at their new address. This procedure was very successful, as only a few participants could not be reached by mail, email or telephone. Moreover, this way of contacting them was a form of appreciation for the time-consuming participation in the previous study, which was explicitly stated by several participants. The high subsequent response rates during the continuation of the longitudinal study have shown that this type of panel maintenance had a positive influence on the willingness to participate.
Involved:
Contributing FAU Organisations:
Lehrstuhl für Psychologie, insbesondere Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie
Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
