Work–Life Balance and Productivity Among Academic Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis

Kotini‐Shah, Pavitra; Man, Bernice; Pobee, Ruth; Hirshfield, Laura E.; Risman, Bárbara J.; Buhimschi, Irina A.; Weinreich, Heather M.

doi:10.1089/jwh.2021.0277

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“…Of the 44 articles selected for extraction, 22 (50%) focused on academic medicine in general rather than on a specific medical area 26,39,43,44,46,50,52–54,56–60,63,68,70,71,75,78–80 ; the remaining publications focused on cardiology (n = 4, 9%), 42,69,72,74 radiology (n = 4, 9%), 61,64,66,73 emergency medicine (n = 2, 5%), 41,55 hematology or transfusion medicine (2, 5%), 40,47 ophthalmology (n = 2, 5%), 48,62 oncology (n = 2, 5%), 45,49 psychiatry (n = 1, 3%), 67 obstetrics and gynecology (n = 1, 3%), 81 osteopathic medicine (n = 1, 3%), 77 pediatrics (n = 1, 3%), 76 surgery (n = 1, 3%), 51 and urology (n = 1, 3%). 65 Articles were divided into 2 broad categories: nonempirical articles that did not collect or analyze primary or secondary data (n = 15, 34%) 26,48–50,54,59,60,68–70,72,73,77,79,80 and empirical articles that collected and/or analyzed data (n = 29; 66%).…”

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Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

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Purpose The COVID-19 pandemic presented new barriers and exacerbated existing inequities for physician scholars. While COVID-19’s impact on academic productivity among women has received attention, the pandemic may have posed additional challenges for scholars from a wider range of equity-deserving groups, including those who hold multiple equity-deserving identities. To examine this concern, the authors conducted a scoping review of the literature through an intersectionality lens. Method The authors searched peer-reviewed literature published March 1, 2020, to December 16, 2021, in Ovid MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, and PubMed. The authors excluded studies not written in English and/or outside of academic medicine. From included studies, they extracted data regarding descriptions of how COVID-19 impacted academic productivity of equity-deserving physician scholars, analyses on the pandemic’s reported impact on productivity of physician scholars from equity-deserving groups, and strategies provided to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic productivity of physician scholars from equity-deserving groups. Results Of 11,587 unique articles, 44 met inclusion criteria, including 15 nonempirical studies and 29 empirical studies (22 bibliometrics studies, 6 surveys, and 1 qualitative study). All included articles focused on the gendered impact of the pandemic on academic productivity. The majority of their recommendations focused on how to alleviate the burden of the pandemic on women, particularly those in the early stages of their career and/or with children, without consideration of scholars who hold multiple and intersecting identities from a wider range of equity-deserving groups. Conclusions Findings indicate a lack of published literature on the pandemic’s impact on physician scholars from equity-deserving groups, including a lack of consideration of physician scholars who experience multiple forms of discrimination. Well-intentioned measures by academic institutions to reduce the impact on scholars may inadvertently risk reproducing and sustaining inequities that equity-deserving scholars faced during the pandemic.

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Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

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“…When students were forced to work or study from home, many complained about how their lives changed, i.e., their Work-life Balance was threatened ( Hjálmsdóttir and Bjarnadóttir, 2021 ; Wan Mohd Yunus et al, 2021 ). Kotini-Shah et al (2022) identified four latent classes of faculty based on their studies on the Work-life Balance among female teaching staff and students who faced more ‘work-life imbalance’ as they must juggle work and parental duties during COVID-19. Class 1 faculty were more likely to be women, non-tenured assistant professors with high work and home stress; Class 2 faculty were more likely to be associate professors, women, tenured, with high home and work stress; Class 3 faculty were more likely to be men, tenured professors with moderate work but low home stress; and Class 4 faculty were more likely adjunct professors, non-tenured, with low home and work stress.…”

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A Delphi method on the positive impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions: Perceptions of academics from Malaysia

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Rasli²,

Toh³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically altered the education sector. Rather than the impact of COVID-19, many higher education institutions (HEIs) are on the verge of insolvency due to a lack of digital transformation readiness and poor business models. The bleak financial future many HEIs will face while others may be forced to close their doors completely will erode HEIs’ ability to fulfil their societal responsibilities. However, HEIs that have survived and maintained their operations anticipate the transition to online learning or the effects of any economic crisis, including university closures in the short, medium, or long term. The entire educational ecosystem was forced to transform its operations quickly and entirely to an online teaching-learning scenario in just a few weeks. Notably, HEIs that have long offered online courses worldwide can easily transition to digital teaching and learning when necessary. The second roundtable session’s result of the International Higher Education Conference, organized by INTI International University on March 31 2022, was used to organize a Delphi method to identify further factors that positively impact HEIs by COVID-19. The importance of these factors was then determined using Kendall’s coefficient of concordance. Recommendations on how HEIs should move towards institutional sustainability during the endemic phase are presented accordingly.

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“…Research among US professors during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that assistant and associate professors reported higher work and home stress compared to full professors, which reported moderate work stress and low home stress. Associate professors additionally reported increased workload, stress, and a poorer work–life balance (Kotini-Shah et al 2022 ). While these results conflict with our findings, showing higher ranked staff experiencing lower WIPL, another study found similar results to ours, where no significant differences between the seniority levels could be found (O’Laughlin and Bischoff 2005 ).…”

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The association between day-to-day stress experiences and work–life interference among office workers in academia: an ecological momentary assessment study

Bolliger

Debra

Lukan

et al. 2022

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Purpose We investigated relations between day-to-day job demands, job control, job strain, social support at work, and day-to-day work–life interference among office workers in academia. Methods This study is based on a 15-working day data collection period using an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) implemented in our self-developed STRAW smartphone application. We recruited office workers from two academic settings in Belgium and Slovenia. Participants were repeatedly asked to complete EMAs including work stressors and work interfering with personal life (WIPL) as well as personal life interfering with work (PLIW). We applied fixed-effect model testing with random intercepts to investigate within- and between-participant levels. Results We included 55 participants with 2261 analyzed observations in this study. Our data showed that researchers with a PhD reported higher WIPL compared to administrative and technical staff (β = 0.37, p < 0.05). We found significant positive associations between job demands (β = 0.53, p < 0.001), job control (β = 0.19, p < 0.01), and job strain (β = 0.61, p < 0.001) and WIPL. Furthermore, there was a significant interaction effect between job control and social support at work on WIPL (β = − 0.24, p < 0.05). Additionally, a significant negative association was found between job control and PLIW (β = − 0.20, p < 0.05). Conclusion Based on our EMA study, higher job demands and job strain were correlated with higher WIPL. Furthermore, we found associations going in opposite directions; higher job control was correlated with higher WIPL and lower PLIW. Higher job control leading to higher imbalance stands out as a novel result.

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Work–Life Balance and Productivity Among Academic Faculty During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Latent Class Analysis

Cited by 46 publications

References 23 publications

Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

A Delphi method on the positive impact of COVID-19 on higher education institutions: Perceptions of academics from Malaysia

The association between day-to-day stress experiences and work–life interference among office workers in academia: an ecological momentary assessment study

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