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Quality-of-life and mental well-being of the unemployed

As the number of the unemployed in Croatia is constantly increasing, the authors wanted to get a better insight into their real health status and quality of life, to find out some psychosocial characteristics in order to improve health care programs, particularly those related to psychological support. Although various authors present statistically significantly greater health difficulties of the unemployed in comparison with other population groups, the results of this study, which was based on two instruments - an especially constructed questionnaire and GHQ12 - did not show statistically significant difference between the group of students and the group of unemployed persons, although there were differences in certain items of the questionnaires. The results obtained are understood as a reflection of the present situation, i.e. a large number of people who are on the list of the Employment Agency, where the study was done, are in fact working, which affected considerably the quality of the sample and the final results. In future investigations this should be avoided.

Quality of life, mental well-being, unemployed

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