The participants experienced different emotions during their unemployment period but most of them had financial worries and experienced social loss, and it was mainly connected to the length of unemployment, relationship status and their social roles.
Í ljós kom að viðmælendur upplifðu mismunandi tilfinningar á atvinnuleysistímabilinu, en flestar höfðu fjárhagsáhyggjur og upplifðu félagslegan missi og tengdist það einkum lengd atvinnuleysis, hjúskaparstöðu og félagslegum hlutverkum þeirra.