Abstract
This study aimed to explore the profiles of emotion regulation strategies among unemployed people, and to examine the association of latent profiles with demographics and psychiatric symptoms. The study included 136 men (42.8%) and 182 women (57.2%). The average age of the participants was 35.84 years (SD = 26.83). Latent profile analysis was used to determine emotion regulation strategy profiles. Associated factors of profile membership were identified with multinomial logistic regression. The four-profile model (low adaptive emotion regulation class, low negative emotion regulation/moderate positive regulation class, high negative emotion regulation/support-seeking class, adaptive emotion regulation class) was selected as the best solution. As a result of examining the probability of being classified into each class according to emotional difficulties, the lower the level of anxiety and somatization, the higher the probability of belonging to the class 2 adaptive emotion regulation class (n = 56, 18%). The higher the depression, the higher the probability of being classified into class 4 (n = 65, 20%) using a lot of negative emotion regulation strategies. The results of this study indicate that unemployed people can be classified into various subgroups according to their emotion regulation strategies. Also, the probability of being classified into each subgroup was different based on the types of emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, and somatization. Through the results of this study, it is possible to understand the relationship between the psychiatric symptoms of unemployed people and emotion regulation strategies and to suggest methods for promoting effective emotion regulation strategies among this population group.
Highlights
Korea has been in a spiral of unprecedented unemployment since it received bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
We have focused on identifying the characteristics of each subgroup by classifying unemployed people into subgroups according to the use of emotional regulation strategies through latent profile analysis
We examined whether the probability of belonging to each group derived based on emotion regulation strategies differs according to the psychiatric symptoms of unemployed people
Summary
Korea has been in a spiral of unprecedented unemployment since it received bailouts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In mid 1998, when restructuring, including layoffs were underway, the official real number reached 1.6 million, raising the sense of social crisis. The IMF’s bailout seemed to have solved the problem of unemployment, but in 2001, the number of official unemployed workers exceeded 1 million again. Psychiatric symptoms and emotion regulation strategies among the unemployed people in Korea
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