Impact of COVID-19 on mental health of employed women residing in Delhi-NCR, India: Mediating role of working from-for home

Health Care Women Int. 2021 Mar;42(3):323-334. doi: 10.1080/07399332.2021.1882463. Epub 2021 Mar 1.

Abstract

Women, who are "supposed" to do all their official and household work are now required to do all of it simultaneously because of lockdown amid covid-19. I did this study to analyze the perceived stress and depressive tendencies among the non-clinical population of employed women residing in Delhi-NCR and whether work from-for home is acting as a mediator between the two. Further, marital status and family status were also taken into consideration. A sample of two-hundred-three responses depicted that there is a significant and positive correlation between perceived stress and depressive tendencies. Further, working from-for home significantly acts as a mediator between the two variables. Moreover, there is no significant interaction between family status and working from-for home on depressive tendencies. However, there is a significant interaction between marital status and working from-for home on depressive tendencies. The implications, limitations, and future suggestions are discussed in the end.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • COVID-19 / psychology*
  • Depression / epidemiology
  • Family Characteristics
  • Female
  • Humans
  • India / epidemiology
  • Marital Status
  • Mental Health*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology
  • Women, Working / psychology*
  • Workload / psychology
  • Young Adult