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In the Theodossiou article, the author tried to answer if not having a job affects well-being more than having a low paying one. The study was done in 1992 Britain, which I would argue might skew the data towards joblessness not having as big of an affect on their life as it would in other countries. There is a running joke, which is widely accepted in Great Britain, that British people bottle up their feelings and don’t express them fully, even when given the opportunity to. In this case, I think that the jobless people when asked might under-report how much being unemployed negatively affects them. I think the study would report very different data in countries that are more accepting of sharing ones feelings. I also believe that the study was unclear in how they asked the subjects to report how they felt, because they were only given a scale of 1-4, and the wording they used for the scaling seemed very similar from one level to another. This could skew the data even further, because if a participant doesn’t fully understand what they’re responding to, how can that data be accurate? Overall, I felt like this study was important towards explaining human nature and the value we put on work, but the way in which it was conducted seems to detract from the validity of their claim that it is better for your well-being to have a low-paying job than none at all.

In MLC’s post “Unemployment on Psychological Well-Being” the most important issue to me was discussed. I think it is very important to have questions that provide accurate data, and I don’t think the way in which they gathered their data was the best way to do so. I would’ve liked if the scale was greater, like 1-10, so that you could see more variation in answers to see the relative difference in responses.