![]() ![]() Similarly to other East-European countries, transition from centrally planned economy to market economy caused changes in the socio-economic life of Estonia. The study is based on the materials of two population surveys “Estonia 1993” and “Estonia 2003” carried out by the family sociologists of Tallinn University. Social problems were reflected in the daily life of people, revealing economic hardships creating tensions in family relationships but also loneliness, increasing the consumption of alcohol, causing difficulties in combining work and family life, which in turn was accompanied by higher stress levels.Ĭloser scrutiny of the proportions of people suffering from stress reveals that there were more women displaying stress-related symptoms whereas the amount of men suffering from stress increased more rapidly in the period from 1993 to 2003. Unfortunately, very often the price paid for success was an increase in the stress level. However, also positive changes should be pointed out, such as a wider spectre of choices and opportunities. Due to the closed nature of the society many of those aspects were entirely unfamiliar to Estonians in the 1990s. ![]() The greatest problems mentioned were unemployment, the danger of losing job, poverty, and the emergence of new types of risk behaviour – an increase in the use of narcotics and the spread of AIDS. On the one hand, reforms revealed negative phenomena, which primarily constituted new sources of stress. In Estonia like in other East-European countries the transition from centrally planned economy to market economy caused changes in socio-economic life. ![]()
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