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Again this looks like a study that claims to do great research about a cool topic only to be full of subjective questions which causes misleading data. Theodossiou’s work in studying the relationship between employment status and mental well-being is definitely intriguing but I questions many of the methods. To begin with, the data used comes from a sample of 7897 individuals, a sample that is too small in my opinion. Next, the respondent questions are hard to interpret and leave room for confounding variables. One of the questions is “Have you recently been feeling reasonably happy, all things considered?”. I take offense to this questions because it can elicit responses unrelated to employment based happiness. Recent death in the family as well as many other factors play into psychological well-being and I’m not seeing work done to control for them. Even the scale is subjective as pointed out by cmcclancy. Phrases like “as usual” are open to interpretation and vary from person to person. All in all, not a fan of the work done in this paper.