Theodossiou articulates that unemployment has a negative effect on psychological well-being, and then by natural flow of reasoning, he further made the assumption that most unemployment was involuntary.\u00a0 Theodossiou says that the parameters of measuring the psychological wellbeing were not limited to “caseness scores” which are numerical values associated with some type of psychological testing. He did his analysis by collecting categorical data (ordinally ranked in 4 levels). His categories were; feeling under strain, losing confidence,thinking of being a worthless person, as well as happiness levels and ability and motivation to do day to day activities.\u00a0 Each ordinal ranking was associated with a value, [e.i. not at all (1), no more\u00a0than usual (2), rather more than usual (3), much more than usual (4)].\u00a0I think that these categorical variables are accurate\/useful for this collecting data because the data is subjective to the person answering the questions- and the researchers were looking for subjective data.<\/p>\n

Additionally, as Elizabeth said in her blog post, even when looking at the data across various subgroups (age, gender, married\/divorced, etc) as to avoid Simpson’s paradox, it all seemed to be relatively following the same trend, but the reasoning behind each trend could be explained differently.\u00a0 \u00a0I would agree with Elizabeth that this article does a good job of categorizing data, and analyzing based on many variables and across many groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Theodossiou articulates that unemployment has a negative effect on psychological well-being, and then by natural flow of reasoning, he further made the assumption that most unemployment was involuntary.  Theodossiou says that the parameters of measuring the psychological wellbeing were not limited to “caseness scores” which are numerical values associated with some type of psychological testing. … <\/p>\n

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