COVID-19 impact on employee flourishing: Parental stress as mediator.

Abstract

Objectives: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has adversely affected the global community's economic, social, emotional, and physical well-being. Although prior research works have rigorously explored the adverse effects of COVID-19 on mental health, investigations linking the impact of COVID-19 with parental stress and flourishing are very scarce. Rooted in boundary theory, the authors examined the influence of COVID-19 on flourishing and parental stress, respectively. Furthermore, predicated on spillover theory, the study explored the mediating effect of parental stress. Method: In this research, 259 IT employees in India were prospectively followed from the second week until the twentieth week of lockdown as part of a longitudinal population. A three-stage data collection method was employed. The employee completed the COVID-19 impact scale in the 2nd and 10th week of lockdown in India. Subsequently, the authors administered parental stress and flourishing surveys online in the 20th week. Results: Findings revealed that COVID-19 negatively impacted employee flourishing, via parental stress that had a partial mediating effect. Conclusion: This study is the first of its kind to theoretically and empirically investigate the direct and indirect impact of COVID-19 on employees’ flourishing via parental stress. Based on the findings, the organizations can enhance their employees' flourishing by providing the autonomy to control their work time, and adequate training to better handle COVID-19 impact and parental stress to have better and sustainable human resources.

Parents' Emotion Management for Personal Well-Being When Challenged by Their Online Work and Their Children's Online School

“…Other studies indicate that COVID-19 had indirect effects on employees' flourishing via parenting stress, based on the work–family spill over theory (Srinivasan and Sulur Nachimuthu, 2021 ). Emotional intelligence can be seen as a protective factor against vulnerability in times of change, implying an increased performance as well as a plausible predictor of well-being and therefore flourishing (Broli et al, 2011 ), results in line with our own findings.…”

“It’s impossible to do it all”: a cross-sectional observational study of pediatric faculty parents during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…The low response rate, although typical in faculty surveys, does limit the generalizability of the findings. However, results are suggestive of important trends among working parents during the COVID-19 pandemic that have been documented in other professions (7,23,30). Additionally, although the demographics of the survey respondents and the faculty population were reportedly similar, the findings may be influenced by selfselection bias (13).…”

“…Early in the pandemic, concerns for physicians focused on physical health and short-term wellbeing. However, longer term concerns, including worsening mental health and workforce dropout, have emerged at an alarming rate and are likely to continue with the rise of new variants, pandemic fatigue and emergent family health crises (22)(23)(24). Self-care has often been promoted in workplace wellness initiatives (25,26), yet healthcare organizations must be cautious not to over-prescribe individual solutions to structural level problems, especially in the case of working parents.…”

Work-life balance -a systematic review

“…An employee spends most of the time commuting (Denstadli et al , 2017) or meeting their work and family responsibilities. Dual career couple in the nuclear family finds it difficult to balance work and life without domestic help (Dumas and Perry-Smith, 2018; Srinivasan and Sulur Nachimuthu, 2021). Difficulty in a joint family is elderly care (Powell et al , 2019).…”