Mental health of working parents during the COVID-19 pandemic: can resilience buffer the impact of psychosocial work stress on depressive symptoms?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has confronted working parents with an accumulation of stressors regarding changes in work, family, and social life, putting their mental health at risk. Stressors include altered working conditions such as working from home or changes in working hours as well as the difficulty to reconcile work and childcare due to the closure of childcare facilities. The present study examined the relationship of psychosocial work stress (i.e., work-privacy conflict and effort-reward imbalance at work) and depressive symptoms in working parents and whether this association was moderated by individual resilience.

Methods

Data of the present study (n = 452) were collected in Germany between May and June 2020 as part of the DREAM_CORONA study. A subs

SUBMITTER: Brym S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9790816 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature