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Recession Depression
Dealing With Layoffs and Downsizing
By Carma Haley Shoemaker
The discarding of workers in times of corporate belt-tightening – or the complete collapse of a company such as Enron – may signify that the talk of a new economy may be more myth than reality. For workers without jobs, it's the same economy as always. Fathers, being the "traditional" breadwinners and responsible for supporting the family, can suffer from the trends of today's economic climate and very easily may go into a depression.
"I followed 50 men as research while composing an article for Psychology Today," says Dorothea Braginsky, professor of psychology at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. "Nearly all of the men I studied, men who had lost their jobs, had dramatically lower self-esteem than those still employed and held very cynical views regarding society. After re-employment, their self-esteem never rebounded entirely and their level of cynicism toward society remained the same. Once a person has been made to feel 'surplus' and expendable, they are forever scarred."
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