Abstract
According to Janoda’s latent deprivation theory and Fryer’s agency restriction theory, people who leave their jobs lose such latent benefits as time structure, activities, status, identity, membership in a collective, social contacts, and manifest benefits such as financial income. The loss of these benefits can harm people’s health. The purpose of the study is to examine the relationship between functions deprivation and unemployment employees’ health. The questionnaires were distributed to the employment service station in Taiwan, of that, 353 effective samples were returned. Instruments used in this study included Latent and Manifest Benefits (LAMB) scale, the General Health Questionnaire: GHQ28, and the PsyCap Questionnaire. We then conducted a t-test and a regression analysis to analyze the empirical data. This study has found evidence that involuntarily unemployed persons’ financialstrain are significant higher than voluntarily unemployed person. Also according to the results, deprivation of latent and manifest benefits (status, activity, financial income) leads to a decrease in physical and mental health, and psychological capital is influence the activity’s effects on health. Finally, to provide theoretical and practical implications of recommendations based on the findings. And the implications and suggestions for future studies are also provided.