专业工作者在疫情期间所经历的工作和生活压力:基于性别的分析分析
Melissa Corrente1, Jungwee Park2, Henrietta Akuamoah-Boateng1
1School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, University of Ottawa, 120 University Private, 75 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON, K1N6N5, Canada.
BMC public health
|May 29, 2024
概括
随着COVID-19大流行,专业工人的工作和生活压力加剧,女性经历了不成比例的更高水平的工作超负荷和时间压力. 研究结果支持以性别为基础的职场心理健康策略.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 劳动社会学工作的社会学.
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19大流行,工作和家庭环境发生了重大变化,现有的压力因素加剧,并引入了新的挑战.
- 这些与流行病有关的影响表现出明显的性别模式,特别是影响职业工人.
- 在工作与生活平衡方面,先前存在的不平等现象加剧了,需要对性别特异性压力因素进行更密切的检查.
研究的目的:
- 调查COVID-19大流行期间专业工人经历的工作和生活压力因素的性别性质.
- 分析与流行病相关的压力因素对职业角色中的男性和女性的影响.
- 确定职业工人中工作和非工作压力的关键来源,考虑性别差异.
主要方法:
- 基于两项泛加拿大调查的基于性别的分析:加拿大社区健康调查 (2019-2021) 和健康职业工人调查 (2021).
- 对自我报告的工作和生活压力因素的定量评估,包括工作过载,数字压力,工作关系,不确定性,时间压力和照顾责任.
- 对男性和女性职业工人之间的压力水平和来源进行比较分析.
主要成果:
- 职业工人报告工作压力的高率,与男性相比,女性的压力水平明显高.
- 工作超载是工作压力的最普遍来源,其次是数字压力,工作关系不佳和不确定性.
- 时间压力是主要的非工作压力因素,加上儿童保育和健康问题,女性报告影响更大.
结论:
- 由于工作和生活压力增加,COVID-19大流行不成比例地影响了职业女性的心理健康.
- 工作场所心理健康倡议必须采用性别敏感的方法,以有效地应对职业工人面临的独特挑战.
- 考虑到性别差异的有针对性的干预措施对于在流行后的职业环境中促进心理健康和福祉至关重要.
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