Employee psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: A longitudinal study of demands, resources, and exhaustion.

ABSTRACT: Many governments react to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic by restricting daily (work) life. On the basis of theories from occupational health, we propose that the duration of the pandemic, its demands (e.g., having to work from home, closing of childcare facilities, job insecurity, work-privacy conflicts, privacy-work conflicts) and personal- and job-related resources (co-worker social support, job autonomy, partner support and corona self-efficacy) interact in their effect on employee exhaustion. We test the hypotheses with a three-wave sample of German employees during the pandemic from April to June 2020 (N_w1  = 2900, N_w12  = 1237, N_w123  = 789). Our findings show a curvilinear effect of pandemic duration on working women's exhaustion. The data

SUBMITTER: Meyer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8013458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature