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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• Personal Author:
  Chen, Liwei ; Chen, Zhuo ; Han, Xuesong ; Li, Hongmei ; Li, Jian ; Li, Yan ; Matthews, Timothy A. ; Omidakhsh, Negar ; Shi, Lu ; Su, Dejun ; Wen, Ming ; Zhang, Donglan
• Description:
  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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Sex Characteristics Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: COVID-19 COVID-19 Gender Gender Factors Job Stress Mental Health Psychological Effects Worker Health Workers Working From Home Work Organization

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• ISSN:
  0019-8366
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Georgia ; Nebraska ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9 ; South Carolina ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  11 pdf pages
• Volume:
  60
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067205
• Citation:
  Ind Health 2022 Aug; 60(4):334-344
• Contact Point Address:
  Jian Li, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California Los Angeles, United States
• Email:
  jianli2019@ucla.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Los Angeles
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Industrial Health
• End Date:
  20270630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3aa16148e828734e98f3b56811baa70871c2fe9534b983054a353d38b1fe94ea0947a25c40d2f7f647ac1b8633565516ad50bb19be5c70769af3b4875dcd16b2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230720/cdc_230720_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.19 MB ]