How physical home workspace characteristics affect mental health: A systematic scoping review

Bergefurt, Lisanne; Appel‐Meulenbroek, Rianne; Arentze, Theo

doi:10.3233/wor-220505

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“…Studying these relationships at the between-person level would overlook the specific nuances of different types of days, conflating teleworking and nonteleworking days. Interestingly, most studies on telework and biophilia have used cross-sectional designs (Bergefurt et al, 2023; e.g., Hoffman, 2021; Junça-Silva et al, 2022—for three notable exceptions: see Junça-Silva, 2022, 2023, 2024a). However, assessing daily effects is important since the influence of dog caregiving and outdoor access is likely more pronounced on teleworking days.…”

Section: Inconsistent Effects Of Teleworkmentioning

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Biophilia in the home–workplace: Integrating dog caregiving and outdoor access to explain teleworkers’ daily physical activity, loneliness, and job performance.

Delanoeije,

Verbruggen

2024

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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We examined whether dog caregiving and outdoor access affect the relationships between a teleworking day and teleworkers' daily physical activity, loneliness, and job performance during the pandemic in two different seasons in 2021. Building on the biophilia hypothesis, we hypothesized that dog caregiving and outdoor access would attenuate the adverse effects of telework on our outcomes. We tested our cross-level moderation hypotheses in a Belgian daily diary data set combining two data collections during 10 workdays in two seasons: One in 284 teleworking employees in spring and one in 151 teleworking employees in autumn-of whom 75 also participated in spring (N persons = 360, N datapoints = 3,809). Consistent with our hypotheses, mixed coefficient modeling showed two-way interactions between teleworking day and dog caregiving, and between teleworking day and outdoor access on daily physical activity, daily loneliness, and daily job performance. Specifically, both dog caregiving and outdoor access buffered against the harmful effects of a teleworking day on these three outcomes: On teleworking days compared to nonteleworking days, there was a smaller decrease in physical activity and in job performance for employees who had a dog or who had outdoor access compared to employees who did not. Likewise, dog caregiving and outdoor access buffered against an increase in loneliness on teleworking days, with a less steep increase for employees with a dog or outdoor access. Our study shows the importance of contextualizing the home context more broadly by including dogs and outdoor access at home when considering the effects of telework during and after the pandemic.

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Section: Inconsistent Effects Of Teleworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Biophilia in the home–workplace: Integrating dog caregiving and outdoor access to explain teleworkers’ daily physical activity, loneliness, and job performance.

Delanoeije,

Verbruggen

2024

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

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Exploring a representative model for associations between health dimensions and home as an informal office

Asadieh,

Neisch

2024

Cities & Health

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Working from home is associated with changes in sleep hygiene practice

Hrehová,

Bušková,

Seifert

et al. 2024

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BACKGROUND: Sleep hygiene habits and self-reported sleep quality of those who work from home have yet to be fully understood. As working from home was widely implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, the period might be a convenient model for studying the measures, as mentioned earlier. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess sleep hygiene habits and self-reported sleep quality in people working from home in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began. METHOD: This study was designed as a cross-sectional web-based survey. An anonymous questionnaire consisted of sociodemographic variables and questions about personal habits, e.g., exercise activities and caffeine consumption. The outcome measures to assess sleep hygiene and sleep quality were the Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) before and after the home office (HO) and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). RESULTS: A total of 204 responses were received. The prevalence of significant sleep disturbance (PSQI > 5) was 51 % . The mean PSQI and SHI scores were 6.15±3.385 and 17.67±7.836, respectively. PSQI and SHI showed a significant mutual positive correlation at the level of significance p < 0.001. The total score for SHI was similar before and after working from home (p = 0.982). However, differences were observed in its components. CONCLUSION: The total score on SHI did not change when compared before and during HO. However, working from home was associated with sleep hygiene malpractice in some individual components of SHI. On the other hand, some aspects of sleep hygiene behavior improved during HO.

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How physical home workspace characteristics affect mental health: A systematic scoping review

Cited by 3 publications

References 37 publications

Biophilia in the home–workplace: Integrating dog caregiving and outdoor access to explain teleworkers’ daily physical activity, loneliness, and job performance.

Biophilia in the home–workplace: Integrating dog caregiving and outdoor access to explain teleworkers’ daily physical activity, loneliness, and job performance.

Exploring a representative model for associations between health dimensions and home as an informal office

Working from home is associated with changes in sleep hygiene practice

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