ArticleIndustrial health2022
Gender difference in working from home and psychological distress - A national survey of U.S. employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Experience of Racial Discrimination was Associated with Psychological Distress and Worsening Sex Life Among Adult Americans During COVID-19.Journal of sex research · 2025Article
- [COVID-19 and the predominant groups of preventive behaviors and associated factors: semi-urban area].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2024Article
- Working from home and mental well-being at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.PloS one · 2024Article
- Deepening Depression in Women Balancing Work-Life Responsibilities and Caregiving during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from Gender-Specific Face-to-Face Street Interviews Conducted in Italy.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Benefits of Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic for Undiagnosed Workers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2023Article
- Associations of COVID-19 Related Work Stressors with Psychological Distress: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Californian Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Working from home, work-time control and mental health: Results from the Brazilian longitudinal study of adult health (ELSA-Brasil).Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has precipitated broad and extensive changes in the way people live and work. While the general subject of working from home has recently drawn increased attention, few studies have assessed gender differences in vulnerability to the potential mental health effects of working from home. Using data from 1,585 workers who participated in the Health, Ethnicity, and Pandemic (HEAP) study, a national survey conducted in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020, associations of working from home with psychological distress were examined with weighted logistic regression among 1,585 workers and stratified by gender. It was found that workers who worked from home had higher odds of psychological distress (aOR and 95% CI = 2.62 [1.46, 4.70]) compared to workers who did not work from home, adjusting for demographic factors, socioeconomic status, and health behaviors. In gender-stratified analyses, this positive association between working from home and psychological distress was significant in women (aOR and 95% CI = 3.68 [1.68, 8.09]) but not in men. These results have implications for female workers' mental health in the transition towards working from home in the COVID-19 pandemic era.
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