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Telework and mental health during COVID-19

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dc.contributor.authorMendonça, Inês
dc.contributor.authorCoelho, Franz
dc.contributor.authorFerrajão, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorAbreu, Ana Maria
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-02T15:05:59Z
dc.date.available2022-03-02T15:05:59Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-01
dc.description.abstractCOVID-19 has come to change societal organization. Due to lockdowns, work typologies have been rethought and telework has gained strength. However, the impact of the constant use of information and communication technologies on the mental health of workers needs to be considered. We aimed to investigate the impact of different work conditions on mental health, to which end we disseminated an online questionnaire during lockdowns to assess imagined surveillance, mobile maintenance expectation, communication overload, feelings of entrapment, depression, anxiety, stress, and flourishing in four groups (employed in telework, employed on-site, employed in layoff, and unemployed). We computed mean comparisons and serial mediations. We show that depression and anxiety were more prevalent in women; parents flourished more than people without children; and people with a higher level of education feel more entrapment. Crucially, we show that telework was associated with imagined surveillance and communication overload, which mediated the association with mobile maintenance expectations and entrapment (which was exacerbated by parenthood), impacting mental health and the quality of life. However, this was also partially observed in the remaining work conditions. Finally, flourishing worked as a protector against mental health issues in all work conditions. We discuss this given the massification of digital migration.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph19052602pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85125091631
dc.identifier.issn1661-7827
dc.identifier.pmcPMC8909524
dc.identifier.pmid35270294
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36844
dc.identifier.wos000771447600001
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID-19pt_PT
dc.subjectICTspt_PT
dc.subjectMental healthpt_PT
dc.subjectTeleworkpt_PT
dc.subjectWellbeingpt_PT
dc.titleTelework and mental health during COVID-19pt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue5pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Healthpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume19pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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