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Working from home, work/life conflict and mental wellbeing in Europe during the pandemic
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences (HOV).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2867-8537
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Health Sciences (HOV).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5935-5688
2023 (English)In: FALF 2023 - Arbetets gränser, 2023, p. 27-28Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

There is an extensive need for continued research about how employees work environment and health are affected in epidemics and pandemics. The Covid-19 pandemic pushed many employees away from their offices into their homes. The main aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between working from home, work/life conflict, and mental wellbeing in Europe during the pandemic by analyzing the following research questions: How have hours worked from home, work-to-life conflict, life-to-work conflict and mental wellbeing changed during different phases of the pandemic? How are hours worked from home related to work-to-life conflict and life-to-work conflict respectively? How are hours worked from home, work-to-life conflict and life-to-work related to mental wellbeing? The study is based on a large-scale online survey that took place at three occasions during the Covid-19 pandemic, between summer 2020 and spring 2022, in 27 EU countries. Entitled, “Living, working and COVID-19”, the aim was to investigate the impact of the pandemic on wellbeing, work and the financial situation of individuals across the EU. Work-to-life conflict and Life-to-work conflict is measured through two separate indexes and Mental wellbeing is measured by the WHO-5 mental wellbeing index.Results indicate that hours worked from home and mental wellbeing decreased, and work-life conflict and life-to-work conflict increased, between 2020 and 2022. Hours worked from home is significantly negatively correlated with work-to-life conflict but significantly positively correlated with life-to-work conflict. This means that the more hours worked from home the less work-to-life conflict and the more life-to-work conflict. There are significant negative relationships between both these two last variables and mental wellbeing; the higher the conflict, the lower mental wellbeing.

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2023. p. 27-28
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-48520OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-48520DiVA, id: diva2:1769618
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FALF 2023: 14-16 juni i Helsingborg
Available from: 2023-06-17 Created: 2023-06-17 Last updated: 2023-07-03Bibliographically approved

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