COVID-19 pandemic disruptions to working lives: A multilevel examination of impacts across career stages.

ABSTRACT: Since early 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted societies worldwide. As we moved from expecting the closure of society to be a short-term one to experiencing it as a longer-term phenomenon, we lacked understanding about how the pandemic has affected the working lives and wellbeing of employees in different life and career stages. Drawing from lifespan development approaches and Job Demands-Resources (JD-R), we considered the effect this profound disruption had on stress, burnout, and job satisfaction across career stages over time. We took a multi-level approach to the analysis of three waves of data. Disruptions were a predictor of stress and negatively affected disengagement and job satisfaction over time. We found differences in the ways in which people in different career stages react

SUBMITTER: Mockaitis AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9388277 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature