Evaluation of anxiety, depression and sleep quality in full-time teleworkers

Afonso, Pedro; Fonseca, Miguel; Teodoro, Tomás

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“…Poor sleep quality may lead to weight gain, worsened mood, increased stress, depression and anxiety, daytime fatigue, and poor concentration [ 19 , 38 ]. The recommended amount of sleep per night is 7–9 h for adults.…”

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Comparative Study on Nutrition and Lifestyle of Information Technology Workers from Romania before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

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The study aimed to evaluate lifestyle factors among Information Technology (IT) workers from Romania before and during the pandemic. We used an online applied questionnaire, filled in by 1638 respondents, that assessed nutrition status-Body Mass Index (BMI), weight and diet change, physical activity, alcohol consumption, number of hours working in front of the computer, stress, and sleep. Multivariate logistic regression was used to establish the lifestyle factors that lead to weight gain. Although the level of physical activity (PA) was low before the pandemic, the results of our study showed a further decrease in physical activity. In total, 61.1% of men and 71.1% of women performed PA for less than 30 min per day. Weight gain was reported in 50.5% of men and 45.3% of women (mean weight gain was 5.11 ± 3.52 kg) as a result of increased screen time (with a mean of 3.52 ± 4.29 for females and 3.05 ± 2.09 for males, p > 0.05 h per day) and the reported changes in diet. Despite the popularity of home-cooked foods, the intake of vegetables and fruit remained low. The quality of sleep was poor for 55.7% of the respondents. Public health and corporation policies are required to encourage a healthy lifestyle and avoid chronic diseases.

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Comparative Study on Nutrition and Lifestyle of Information Technology Workers from Romania before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…It results in intensifying work, distracting from the family members and creating work-family conflict ( Hammer et al, 2005 ; Allen et al, 2015 ; Derks et al, 2016 ; Grant et al, 2019 ). Telework can also lead to higher stress and depression ( Song and Gao, 2020 ; Afonso et al, 2021 ), technostress ( Suh and Lee, 2017 ; Vayre and Vonthron, 2019 ; Ghislieri et al, 2022 ), or workaholism ( Vayre, 2019 ; Song and Gao, 2020 ). Secondly, due to a greater physical distance from teamwork, a feeling of social isolation, alienation and loneliness can emerge ( Zhou, 2018 ; Charalampous et al, 2019 ).…”

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Work-From-Home During COVID-19 Lockdown: When Employees’ Well-Being and Creativity Depend on Their Psychological Profiles

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With the COVID-19 pandemic, governments implemented successive lockdowns that forced employees to work from home (WFH) to contain the spread of the coronavirus. This crisis raises the question of the effects of mandatory work from home on employees’ well-being and performance, and whether these effects are the same for all employees. In the present study, we examined whether working at home may be related to intensity, familiarity with WFH, employees’ well-being (loneliness at work, stress, job satisfaction, and work engagement) and creativity (‘subjective’ and ‘objective’). We also examined whether the psychological profile of employees, combining preference for solitude and associated personality variables from the Big Five, may influence the effects of WFH. The data were collected via an online survey from November 13th to December 15th 2020 among 946 employees from various organizations during the second lockdown in France. In addition to identifying two distinctive psychological profiles for employees having to WFH, results revealed that those with a “Solitary” profile reported higher loneliness at work, higher levels of stress, and lower levels of job satisfaction and work engagement than those with an “Affiliative” profile. It was also found that employees with a “Solitary” profile perceived themselves as less creative and produced objectively fewer ideas than individuals with an “Affiliative” profile. The present study suggests the necessity to distinguish the profiles of teleworkers and to offer a stronger support for the less affiliative employees when working from home.

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“…Because people wanted to stay informed, they accessed various online resources, which could contribute to communication and social overload. Due to the generalized lockdown measures around the globe, the use of information technology surged to permit telemedicine [23], telework [24,25] and online classes [26][27][28][29].…”

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Influence of Technostress on Academic Performance of University Medicine Students in Peru during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Álvarez-Risco

Del-Aguila-Arcentales

Yáñez

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The current study aims to validate and apply an instrument to assess the relationship between communication overload, social overload, technostress, exhaustion and academic performance. We performed a cross-sectional, analytical study of 2286 university medical students to assess the influence of technostress as a mediator of social media overload, communication overload and mental exhaustion and its detrimental effect on the academic performance of university students in Peru during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research model was validated using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to establish the influence of variables on the model. Communication and social overload were found to positively influence technostress by correlations of 0.284 and 0.557, respectively. Technostress positively influenced exhaustion by 0.898, while exhaustion negatively influenced academic performance by -0.439. Bootstrapping demonstrated that the path coefficients of the research model were statistically significant. The research outcomes may help university managers understand students’ technostress and develop strategies to improve the balanced use of technology for their daily academic activities.

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Evaluation of anxiety, depression and sleep quality in full-time teleworkers

Cited by 55 publications

References 40 publications

Comparative Study on Nutrition and Lifestyle of Information Technology Workers from Romania before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

Comparative Study on Nutrition and Lifestyle of Information Technology Workers from Romania before and during COVID-19 Pandemic

Work-From-Home During COVID-19 Lockdown: When Employees’ Well-Being and Creativity Depend on Their Psychological Profiles

Influence of Technostress on Academic Performance of University Medicine Students in Peru during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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