Gender, work-family conflict and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic among Quebec graduate students.

ABSTRACT: The increasing mental health inequalities between women and men following the COVID-19 crisis represent a major public health concern. Public health measures to mitigate the pandemic could severely impact populations with high prevalence of mental health problems such as graduate students. We aimed to document the gendered experience of the lockdown and its association with depressive symptoms among graduate students in Quebec. We contrast two hypotheses: whether inequalities in depressive symptoms between women and men could be linked to their differential exposure or vulnerability to work, family and study conditions, with the mediating role of work-to-family interference (WIF) and family-to-work interference (FIW). This observational study used path analysis to test our hypotheses using

SUBMITTER: Bilodeau J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8461224 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature