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Unemployment, Self-esteem, and Depression: Differences between Men and Women Álvaro Estramiana, José Luis Garrido Luque, Alicia Pereira Cícero, Roberto Torres, Ana Raquel Cavalcanti Barros, Sabrina Depression Gender Self-esteem Unemployment Ciencias Sociales 6114 Psicología Social Although there is a vast bibliography on the negative consequences of unemployment for mental health, there are no studies that analyze the differences between men and women in relation to the consequences that unemployment could have simultaneously on self-esteem and depression. The main objective of this study was to analyze whether, unemployment is differentially associated with the self-esteem of men and women, and to test whether this circum stancecan be considered a psychological mechanism by which we could explain differences in depression for men and women. Results show that self-esteem is a mediating variable (indirect effect = .11; 90% CI [.04, .19]), considering its differential impact on depression, but this mediation is moderated by the gender of the respondents (b = .21, 90% IC [.01, .40]. In summary, unemployment is associated with lower self-esteem, which in turn is related to greater depressive symptoms. This relationship is only observed for men and not for women. Depto. de Antropología Social y Psicología Social Fac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología TRUE pub 2023-12-21T10:03:50Z 2023-12-21T10:03:50Z 2019 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/91669 1138-7416 10.1017/sjp.2018.68 1988-2904 eng Álvaro, J. L., Garrido, A., Pereira, C. R., Torres, A. R., & Barros, S. C. (2018). Unemployment, self-esteem, and depression: Differences between men and women. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 21. e1. Doi:10.1017/sjp.2018.68 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ restricted access application/pdf Cambridge University Press