Desemprego e sofrimento psíquico: uma revisão integrativa de literatura

Abstract

Given the uncertainties and instabilities that permeate the world of work today, unemployment is a difficult experience to avoid given structural unemployment and precarious work. Recognizing that the situation of unemployment can generate emotional instability, the objective of this article was to investigate how current studies on unemployment consider the psychological suffering of people who are unemployed. An integrative literature review was carried out using the PEPSIC database. The descriptor used for the research was unemployment. It is part of the inclusion criteria that the articles were in full in Portuguese, published between 2018 and 2022. The feelings related to unemployment in the research are: helplessness, discomfort, sadness, not feeling well, despair, missing the old job. These feelings are due to a lack of routine, income, anticipated work activity and broken ties. It is concluded that the articles analyzed do not problematize unemployment as a social and political experience, leaving it up to those who experience the condition of lack of contractual work activity to deal with their own anguish and find ways to avoid unemployment.