Employee psychological wellbeing in the face of pandemic: The role of belief in work priority |
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| Authors: | S Susie Lee Melody M Chao |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Strategic Management and Organisation, IBSS Building, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and Education Innovation District, Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China;2. Department of Management, Lee Shau Kee Business Building, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China |
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| Abstract: | Traditionally, individuals who prioritize work over other aspects of life have been lauded as ideal employees. Individuals vary in the extent to which they endorse the beliefs that work should be prioritized over other aspects of life, known as the Belief in Work Priority (BWP). Various lockdown restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic have blurred work-family boundary, which consequently made prioritizing work over family responsibilities challenging. A repeated cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the relationship between BWP and employee wellbeing during (vs. before) the pandemic outbreak. We recruited 398 participants who were employed and resided in the U.S. Results revealed that during the pandemic, BWP and employee wellbeing showed a negative relationship through increased work-family conflict. Furthermore, such relationship was particularly strong among married employees and male employees. |
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| Keywords: | COVID-19 psychological well-being work-family conflict open data |
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