Work-Life Conflict during Covid-19 and Psychological Resilience Role of Self-Affirmation Interventions - A Study in Bangalore, India
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PGDM, Krupanidhi School of Management, Bangalore - 560087, Karnataka ,IN
Shagufta Showkat
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https://doi.org/10.18311/jeoh/2023/34181Keywords:
Covid-19, Psychological Resilience, Stress, Self-Affirmation Interventions, Work- Family ConflictAbstract
The present research is an attempt to find out the impact of work-family conflict on employee resilience and the role of Self-affirmative interventions in building the resilience and mitigating the impact. A total of 55 interviews were conducted. This paper proposes that work-life conflict during Covid-19 had a negative impact on psychological resilience. Moreover, various self-affirmation strategies adopted by the respondents during Covid-19 helped them to combat the work-family conflict and stress created by it. A research need has been identified by the previous research to find out the role of self-affirmation interventions in aligning the values and needs with changed or unexpected environments to tackle the work-family conflict. Moreover, the relationship between the psychological resilience and self-affirmation interventions has not been explored previously, particularly in the Indian Context.
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Accepted 2023-08-30
Published 2023-09-19
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