Psychological Responses to Home-Working Practices: A Network Analysis of Relationships with Health Behaviour and Wellbeing.

ABSTRACT: Working at home, rather than in the workplace, has been suggested to affect office-based workers' health and wellbeing. This exploratory, cross-sectional study sought to identify discrete psychological responses to home-working practices and investigate their relationship with engagement in health-related behaviours and wellbeing. A sample of 491 home-workers completed a survey assessing ten psychological responses to home-working (e.g., the ability to 'switch off' from work), ten health behaviour indices (e.g., sleep trouble), and seven wellbeing indices. Network Analysis modelled relationships between these variables. Results showed four clusters of psychological responses to home-working practices (representing 'home-working independence', 'home-work transition', 'daily work pressure',

SUBMITTER: Keightley S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11591258 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature