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Social Science & Medicine: Allison Milner, Lauren Krnjacki, Peter Butterworth, Anthony D. Lamontagne
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Article history: Perceived social support is associated with overall better mental health. There is also evidence that
Received 29 October 2015 unemployed workers with higher social support cope better psychologically than those without such
Received in revised form support. However, there has been limited research about the effect of social support among people who
14 January 2016
have experienced both unemployment and employment. We assessed this topic using 12 years of
Accepted 27 January 2016
Available online 30 January 2016
annually collected cohort data.
The sample included 3190 people who had experienced both unemployment and employment. We
used longitudinal fixed-effects modelling to investigate within-person changes in mental health
Keywords:
Mental health
comparing the role of social support when a person was unemployed to when they were employed.
Employed Compared to when a person reported low social support, a change to medium (6.35, 95% 5.66 to 7.04,
Unemployed p < 0.001) or high social support (11.58, 95%, 95% CI 10.81 to 12.36, p < 0.001) was associated with a large
Social support increase in mental health (measured on an 100 point scale, with higher scores representing better
Longitudinal mental health). When a person was unemployed but had high levels of social support, their mental
Fixed effect health was 2.89 points (95% CI 1.67 to 4.11, p < 0.001) higher than when they were employed but had
lower social support. The buffering effect of social support was confirmed in stratified analysis.
There was a strong direct effect of social support on mental health. The magnitude of these differences
could be considered clinically meaningful. Our results also suggest that social support has a significant
buffering effect on mental health when a person is unemployed.
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1. Background and Berkman, 2001; Barrera, 1986; Lakey and Orehek, 2011;
Cohen and Wills, 1985). Social support has been conceptualised in
1.1. Social support and mental health many ways e but has commonly been measured through the
experience of perceived emotional, practical, or informational
There is substantial evidence that those with greater social support (Gottlieb and Bergen, 2010). Social support may affect
support (defined as the social resources that persons perceive to be health through direct and/or indirect pathways (Cohen and Wills,
available or that are actually provided to them by non-professionals 1985). The indirect relationship suggests a “buffering” effect, in
(Cohen and Gottlieb, 2000 cited in Gottlieb and Bergen, 2010)) have that the link between life stresses and poor mental health is
better mental health than those with less social support (Kawachi stronger for people with low social support than for people with
high social support (Lakey and Orehek, 2011). The direct relation-
* Corresponding author. Work, Health & Wellbeing, Centre for Population Health ship suggests that social support promotes mental health by
Research, School of Health & Social Development, Deakin University, Building providing persons with regular positive experiences and a set of
BC3.213, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
E-mail address: allison.milner@deakin.edu.au (A. Milner).
stable, socially rewarded roles. Cohen and Wills (1985) argue that
URL: http://www.deakin.edu.au this promotes positive affect, a sense of predictability, stability and
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self-worth. Evidence from meta-analytic studies suggests that the illnesses, such as depressive symptoms, represent clearly different
main effects of social support on mental health are more consis- statistical constructs from loneliness and social support (Weeks
tently observed than buffering (indirect) effects (Lakey and Cronin, et al. 1980; Cacioppo et al. 2006; Russell, 1996). Regardless, this
2008, Lakey and Orehek, 2011). There is also evidence to suggest emphasises the importance of controlling for person-related char-
that perceived social support has a greater effect on mental health acteristics that could influence the relationship between social
than received social support (Thoits, 2011; Turner and Marino, support and mental health. The fixed-effect regression approach
1994). described above eliminates this source of bias by inherently con-
trolling for time-invariant person-related and other characteristics.
1.2. Mental health, unemployment and social support The main aim of the current paper is to assess the relationship
between mental health and social support among persons who
Considerable evidence from longitudinal surveys suggests that have experienced both unemployment and employment. We
people have worse mental health when they are unemployed hypothesise that social support will have a beneficial effect on
compared to when they are employed (Paul and Batinic, 2010; mental health regardless of employment status (in line with the
Milner et al. 2013b). Further, repeated spells of unemployment main effects hypothesis). However, we would also hypothesise a
lead to further declines in mental health; that is, with additional significant buffering effect of high social support for people who are
bouts of unemployment, there is a continual decline in mental unemployed. We base this hypothesis on the research discussed
health (Milner et al. 2013b). At the same time, research has also above which suggests that social support may be particularly
shown that poor mental health is both a consequence of and risk important when people are going through stressful life events. We
factor for unemployment (Olesen et al. 2013). Thus, policy and would argue that unemployment represents one such life stressor
practice addressing unemployment may benefit from considering that could lead to a lowering of mental health. Thus, we seek to test
strategies to enhance factors that could improve mental health, as the buffering and main effects hypotheses (discussed above) using
well as mitigating the negative impacts of unemployment. a within-person analytic approach.
There has been some past research indicating that social support
has an important influence on the mental health of those who are 2. Methods
unemployed. For example, a population based case control study on
young people set in Sweden found that mental health was gener- 2.1. Data source
ally worse among unemployed persons with low social support
from family and friends than among unemployed persons with The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia
higher social support (Axelsson and Ejlertsson, 2002). The authors (HILDA) survey is a longitudinal, nationally representative study of
of this study suggest that high support decreased the risk of having Australian households established in 2001. It collects detailed in-
mental health problems among unemployed persons. A much older formation annually from over 13,000 individuals within over 7000
study (Gore, 1978) followed up males who lost their jobs due to a households (Wilkins, 2013). The response rate to wave 1 was 66%
factory closure and demonstrated the role of social support in (Wilkins, 2013). The survey covers a range of dimensions including
protecting against a range of physical and mental health outcomes. social, demographic, health and economic conditions using a
This aligns with evidence from a 2009 meta analysis, which found combination of face-to-face interviews with trained interviewers
that unemployed workers with higher social support felt better and a self-completion questionnaire. Although data are collected
psychologically than those without such support (Pinquart and on each member of the household, interviews are only conducted
Sorensen, 2000; Mckee-Ryan et al., 2005). with those older than 15 years of age.
A limitation of much of the research discussed above is that it The initial wave of the survey began with a large national
tends to be cross-sectional and based on between-person com- probability sample of Australian households occupying private
parisons, and may therefore be subject to a range of biases con- dwellings (Wilkins, 2013). Interviews were sought in later waves
nected to unmeasured or unadjusted differences in the groups with all persons in sample households who turned 15 years of
being compared. For example, there may be selection effects in that age. Additional persons have been added to the sample as a
those persons who become unemployed may already have worse result of changes in household composition. For example, if a
health and social support than those who are employed; such dif- household member left his or her original household (e.g. chil-
ferences would reduce the exchangeability of the groups being dren left home, or a couple separated), he/she formed an entirely
compared, thus reducing causal inference. A within-person new household including all persons living with the original
approach allows identification of changes in mental health when sample member. Inclusion of these new households is the main
a person has low social support, compared to when that same way in which the HILDA survey maintains sample representa-
person has higher social support; thus, a person is able to act as tiveness. A top-up sample of 2000 people was added to the
their own control, removing bias that may be present due to time- cohort in 2011 to allow better representation of the Australian
invariant differences between people (Gunasekara et al. 2014). population using the same methodology as the original sample
Related to this, there is some concern that perceived-support (i.e., a three-stage area-based design) (Watson, 2011). The
measures may be confounded with either personality factors or response rates for the HILDA survey are above 90% for re-
depression (Finch and Zautra, 1992; Henderson, 1984), thus there spondents who have continued in the survey and above 70% for
maybe the possibility that people with poorer mental health attract new respondents being invited into the study (Wilkins, 2013).
less social support. However, past prospective studies have evi- The main variables examined in this study were available in all
denced functional differences between social support, loneliness annual waves of HILDA (2001e2012).
and mental health problems (Finch and Zautra, 1992), e.g., social
support and loneliness predict subsequent depression longitudi- 2.2. Outcome variable
nally, even after controlling for initial depression levels (Cacioppo
et al. 2010, 2006; Green et al. 1992; Hagerty and Williams, 1999; Mental health was assessed using the five-item Mental Health
Heikkinen and Kauppinen, 2004; Tiikkainen and Heikkinen, Inventory (MHI), a subscale from the SF-36 general health survey.
2005), which suggests some support for this causal pathway. The MHI assesses symptoms of depression and anxiety (nervous-
Further, a number of other studies have found that common mental ness, depressed affect) and positive aspects of mental health
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(feeling calm, happy) in the past 4 weeks. The MHI has reasonable dependents, lone person without dependents, and a group or
validity and is an effective screening instrument for mood disorders multiple person household). We also controlled for marital status
or severe depressive symptomatology in the general population (Marital status, Married, Separated, Divorced, Widowed, Defacto,
(Rumpf et al. 2001; Yamazaki et al. 2005; Gill et al. 2006). The Single), recognising that the perceptions of social support may
current analyses use the continuous MHI score, with higher scores differ according to whether someone is in a relationship or not (i.e.,
representing better mental health. Although there is no universally differences between received and perceived social support) (Haber
accepted translation of MHI score difference to clinical meaning- et al. 2007).
fulness, a difference of three points on the norm based scale (T-
score) has been suggested to reflect a minimally important differ- 2.5. Analytic strategy
ence (Ware, 2000), and a difference of four or more on the
unstandardised scale has been characterised as indicating a Longitudinal linear fixed-effects regression models were used
moderately clinically significant effect (Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al. to estimate the association between social support (as a three
2009). level variable) and MHI score within individuals. Fixed effects
regression models describe differences in MHI score associated
2.3. Exposure variable with lower social support compared with that individual's mean
MHI score when they had medium or high social support. These
The social support measure was designed to assess an in- models provide an indication of within-person effects. Fixed-
dividual's perception of the social support they receive from friends effects models are particularly useful where time-invariant con-
and family. This measure has been used in previous studies (Crosier founding is likely to create bias in causal estimates (Gunasekara et
et al. 2007; Hewitt et al. 2010). This measure primarily taps into al., 2014).
emotional support. We are particularly focused on perceived social We controlled for time-varying factors by including a number of
support as this has been recognised as having a more important relevant covariates into the fixed-effects models. Including these in
effect on mental health (Mcdowell and Serovich, 2007) and mor- fixed effect models accounted for individual change in these vari-
tality (Lyyra and Heikkinen, 2006) than received social support. The ables that might influence the relationship between social support
10-item scale included the following items: and mental health. We assessed the effect of social support on
mental health contemporaneously, on the premise that perceived
I have no one to lean on in times of trouble (reverse coded); social support would have an immediate effect on a scaled measure
I often feel very lonely (reverse coded); of mental health. We tested the hypothesis that the association
I enjoy the time I spend with the people that are important to between social support and mental health differed depending on
me; whether a person was employed or unemployed using an interac-
I seem to have a lot of friends; tion term in fixed-effects models, and examined this using the
People don't come and visit as much as I would like (reverse likelihood ratio test and inspection of significance values of inter-
coded); action terms in the model.
I often need help from other people but can't get it (reverse
coded); 2.6. Analytic sample and missing data
I don't have anyone that I can confide in (reverse coded);
There is someone who can always cheer me up when I am In order to test both the social support-mental health rela-
down; tionship and effect modification of that relationship by employ-
When I need someone to help me out, I can usually find ment status within-persons, those persons eligible for the analytic
someone; and sample had to experience waves of both employment and un-
When something's on my mind, just talking with the people I employment. Within the eligible sample, we noted about 4% of
know can make me feel better. data was excluded due to missingness on variables included in the
analysis (Fig. 1). We would note that this analysis is on a selected
Items are rated on an 8-point Likert scale ranging from sample which excludes cohort participants who were continu-
strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (7) and the Cronbach's ously employed or unemployed (or not in the labour force) for all
alpha, for the current data, was 0.84 across all waves. The social of their contributed waves. While internally consistent and
support scale was created by averaging the ten items in the scale, maximising causal inference, this is at the expense of generaliz-
with lower scores representing lower social support and higher ability. For example, those persons who were excluded from the
scores representing higher social support (the items we reverse analytic sample had slightly lower scores on our mental health
coded above). In its original form, the scale was strongly posi- measure (mean score of 69.33, 95% CI 68.47 to 70.20) than those
tively skewed. Hence, we tested the analytic relationships of who were included from the sample (mean score of 71.30, 95% CI
interest with social support coded in three levels (Low (1e4.69), 71.05 to 71.56). Although we would note these differences were
Medium (4.70e5.59), High (5.6e7)) based on the observed dis- minimal.
tribution of the variable. As a sensitivity test, we also created a
binary measure where 1e5.59 were classified as “low” social 3. Results
support, and 5.60 to 7 was classified as “high” social support
based on a median split. The characteristics of the analytic sample can be seen in Table 1.
The minimum number of observations for respondents included in
2.4. Other covariates the study was 2 and the maximum was 12; on average respondents
contributed 5.6 waves of data. The mean scores on the MHI mea-
The model also included a number of likely confounders. These sure was similar at baseline and in the final wave of the sample. As
included age (measured continuously), education (postgraduate, can be seen there was an equal distribution of males and females.
bachelor degree, diploma or certificate, year 12, not completed year About 41% of the sample were unemployed in their first contrib-
12), long-term health condition (yes or no) and household structure uted wave, while 26.43% were unemployed in their last contributed
(couple or lone adult residing with dependents, couple without wave. Despite the inclusion of new survey entrants (children
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5.42 to 6.87, p < 0.001) rise in mental health (on the 100-point MHI
scale) and a 10.93 (95% CI 10.11 to 11.74, p < 0.001) rise in mental
health when a person had high levels of social support. When a
person was unemployed but had high levels of social support, their
mental health was 2.89 points (95% CI 1.67 to 4.11, p < 0.001) higher
than when they were employed but had lower social support, while
the presence of high social support does not make up for the
decline in mental health due to unemployment completely, it does
buffer the impact considerably, with those who are unemployed
with high social support showing a net difference in mental health
of 0.89 points on the 100-point MHI scale (3.78 plus 2.89).
We then stratified results by whether people had low, medium
or high social support (Table 3) to assess mental health–employ-
ment status relationships, while holding social support stable.
Among those people with low social support, being unemployed
was associated with a 3.48 point decline in mental health (95% CI-
4.79 to 2.18, p < 0.001). Among those with medium social support,
unemployment was associated with a 2.44 decline in mental
health (95% CI-3.78 to 1.11, p < 0.001), while among those with
high social support, being unemployed was associated with a very
small decline in mental health (0.49, 95% CI-1.32 to 0.35, <0.001).
4. Discussion
Table 1
Sample characteristics (n ¼ 3190) on first and last contributed waves to the analysis.
MHI score (0e100), mean with std.dev. 70.79 (17.80) 70.86 (18.02)
Social support (%)
Low 28.28 32.11
Medium 27.78 25.34
High 43.98 42.55
Gender (%)
Male 50.27 50.27
Female 49.73 49.73
Employment status (%)
Employed 59.05 73.57
Unemployed 40.95 26.43
Age group (%)
Under 30 yrs 60.58 48.98
31e44 yrs 23.61 23.99
45e60 yrs 14.71 21.76
61 yrs pls 1.1 5.27
Marital status (%)
Married 22.89 29.6
Separated 3.17 3.45
Divorced 7.15 9.03
Widowed 0.97 1.35
Defacto 12.23 15.8
Never married/single 53.59 40.77
Long term health (%) conditions
Yes 17.84 22.92
No 82.16 77.08
Household structure (%)
Couple no children 15.21 22.14
Couple with children 49.89 38.79
Lone with children 17.72 13.64
Lone person 10.69 18.12
Other 6.49 7.31
Table 2
Fixed effect within-person regression results, the effect of social support on mental health by employment status, HILDA, 2001 to 2012, 3190 persons.
(1) Adjusted main effects model (2) Unadjusted interaction model (3) Adjusted interaction model
Coef L 95% CI U 95% CI p value Coef L 95% CI U 95% CI p value Coef L 95% CI U 95% CI p value
Social support
Low 1 1 1
Medium 6.35 5.66 7.04 <0.001 6.33 5.61 7.04 <0.001 6.15 5.42 6.87 <0.001
High 11.58 10.81 12.36 <0.001 11.29 10.49 12.09 <0.001 10.93 10.11 11.74 <0.001
Employment status
Employed 1 1 1
Unemployed 1.96 2.56 1.37 <0.001 3.00 3.97 2.03 <0.001 3.78 4.98 2.58 <0.001
Employment status*social support
Employed*lower social support 1
Unemployed* medium social support 0.73 0.59 2.06 0.278 0.63 0.78 2.04 0.38
Unemployed* high social support 2.76 1.58 3.94 <0.001 2.89 1.67 4.11 <0.001
Constant 61.10 58.30 63.89 <0.001 65.03 64.52 65.54 <0.001 61.10 58.30 63.89 <0.001
Notes: The MHI runs from 0 (low) to 100 (high). Coef ¼ model coefficient; L CI ¼ lower confidence intervals at 95% significance; U CI ¼ upper confidence intervals at 95%
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