The Psychology of the recession on the workplace

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Contents: Foreword Lennart Levi PART I: INDIVIDUAL HEALTH, STRESS AND WELL-BEING 1. Well-Being Among Greeks And Immigrants Before And After Financial Crisis Alexander-Stamatios Antoniou and Marina Dalla 2. Socioeconomic Adversity and Family Stressors in Relation to School Achievement Among Greek, Serbian and Albanian Students A.-S. Antoniou, M. Dalla, L. Kashahu, Dh. Karaj, G. Michailidis and E. Georgiadi 3. Impact of the Recession and Its Aftermath on Individual Health and Well-being Esther Greenglass, Zdravko Marjanovic and Lisa Fiksenbaum 4. Workaholism and Psychosocial Functioning: Individual, Family and Workplace Perspectives Diana Malinowska, Monika Trzebinska, Aleksandra Tokarz and Bruce Kirkcaldy 5. The Mark of Recession in the High Tech Industry: High Stress and Low Burnout Ayala Malach Pines and Nurit Zaidman 6. The Impact of the Recession and Its Aftermath on Individual Health and Well-being Oi Ling Siu 7. Temporary Employment, Quality of Working Life and Well-being Alfred Wagenaar, Michiel Kompier, Toon Taris and Irene Houtman PART II: JOB INSECURITY, JOB LOSS AND UNEMPLOYMENT 8. Economic Recession, Job Insecurity and Employee and Organizational Health Ronald Burke 9. The Psychology of Unemployment: Laying Off People in a Recession Adrian Furnham 10. Perceiving and Responding to Job Insecurity: The Importance of Multilevel Contexts Lixin Jiang, Tahira Probst and Robert Sinclair 11. Unemployment and Mental Health Howard Kahn 12. The Effects of Not Working: A Psychological Framework for Understanding the Experience of Job Loss Ellen Shupe and Katelyn Buchholz PART III: SPECIFIC ISSUES IN RECESSION 13. Effects of the Recession on Psychological Contracts between Employers and Employees Donald Cable and Michael O'Driscoll 14. The Individual Afront the Antinomies of the Contemporary World Menelaos Givalos 15. Psychological Effects of Restructuring Kathleen Otto, Thomas Rigotti and Gisela Mohr 16. Social Support in Times of Economic Stress Ewelina Smoktunowicz, Roman Cieslak and Charles Benight PART IV: WORK-FAMILY BALANCE/CONFLICT 17. The Dynamism of Balancing Work and Family in a Developing Society: Evidence from Taiwan Luo Lu 18. Low Income Families and Occupational Health: Implications of Economic Stress for Work-Family Conflict Research and Practice Robert Sinclair, Tahira Probst, Leslie Hammer and Meline Schaffer