Being unemployed may be better for your mental state than having a job you hate. According to a new Australian study, having an unstable, demanding and thankless job could make you unhappier than not having a job at all.

Once upon a time, researchers thought having a job made a person feel needed and fulfilled. Rift Gold That may be true if you have a job you enjoy, but securing a bad job is taxing on mental health. Experts at Australian National University decided to investigate how a person's job affects individual well-being. They analyzed seven years of data from over 7,000 respondents of an Australian labor survey for the Occupational and Environmental Medicine study and found low quality jobs that came with high demands, low decision making control, high insecurity and decreased rewards had a higher negative effect than joblessness.

Researchers rated unemployed Australian study subjects with a mental-health score of 68.5, RIFT Platinum which was based on the five-item Mental Health Inventory that measures depression, anxiety, and positive well-being. Employed individuals had an average score of 75.1.

According to study authors, those who went from unemployment to a high quality job experienced improvements in mental health and raised their score by 3.3 points. RIFT Platinum Meanwhile, those who remained in low-satisfying jobs saw a 5.6-point drop below average – a drop lower than those remaining unemployed.

These findings reveal the importance of a person's employment in relation to their well-being, and indicate people who are unhappy with their work should seek new more positive position that better fits their needs. rift gold The study concludes that "work of poor psychosocial quality does not bestow the same mental health benefits as employment in jobs with high psychosocial quality."