Work-Life Enrichment and Interference Among Swedish Workers: Trends From 2016 Until the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has altered workers' possibilities to combine work and private life. Work and private life could either interfere with each other, that is, when conflicting demands arise, or enrich, that is, when the two roles are beneficial to one another. Analyzing data from the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health through individual growth models, we investigated time trends of interference and enrichment between work and private life from 2016 through March to September 2020, which is during the first wave of the pandemic. The sample included workers who had remained in the same workplace throughout the study period and worked at least 30% of full time, reaching 5,465 individuals. In addition, we examined trends in level of interference and enrichment across gender

SUBMITTER: Brulin E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328076 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature