ABSTRACT
A decline during unemployment in the fourth environmental characteristic, variety, occurs in part because of the reduction in goals and demands, and also from a loss of welcome contrast between job and nonjob activities. Some individuals believe firmly that raising a family is in itself a full-time job and should be respected as such, whereas others are a bit negative when someone describes her or his occupation as a housewife or househusband. Different job-related situations have different mixes of the needed happiness features, and situations' average levels of those features are accompanied by parallel average differences in happiness or unhappiness. Some people want to have a job more strongly than others, and those unemployed people who are more committed to a job are consistently found to be the most distressed in their situation.
