Children, care time, career priority -What matters for junior scientists' productivity and career perspective during the COVID-19 pandemic?

IF 2.4 3区 工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL Cognition Technology & Work Pub Date : 2022-05-03 DOI:10.3233/WOR-211230
B. Muschalla, Anke Sondhof, Ulrike Wrobel
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BACKGROUND The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic brought about restrictions, additional workload, insecurity, or need for inventing new routines for professionals worldwide. The pandemic and its restrictions have been discussed as a career shock. OBJECTIVE Adding knowledge to this, our study investigated the academic and family (care) situation of young scientists in a German technical university. METHODS We conducted an online survey including young scientists from a technical university in Germany in April 2021. 346 participants (mean age 33 years, 37% women) gave self-ratings on academic and life situation during the pandemic year, care work, preferences for scientific career and family life. RESULTS Family and career were independent priorities (r = 0.021, p = 0.676). Two thirds (68%) of the young scientists reported no deterioration in scientific outcome during the pandefmic year. But, care times and number of children impacted negatively on scientific productivity in terms of publications. This was true for both women and men. CONCLUSIONS Young scientists need individual support for their career perspective, according to their concrete career level and life situation.
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在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间,儿童、护理时间、职业优先级对初级科学家的生产力和职业前景至关重要?
冠状病毒(COVID-19)大流行给世界各地的专业人员带来了限制、额外的工作量、不安全感,或者需要发明新的常规。这场大流行及其限制措施一直被视为职业冲击。目的调查德国某理工大学青年科技人员的学业和家庭(护理)状况。方法我们于2021年4月对德国某理工大学的青年科学家进行了在线调查。346名参与者(平均年龄33岁,37%为女性)对大流行年份的学业和生活状况、护理工作、对科学事业的偏好和家庭生活进行了自我评价。结果家庭和事业为独立优先级(r = 0.021, p = 0.676)。三分之二(68%)的青年科学家报告说,在大流行期间,科学成果没有恶化。但是,照顾孩子的时间和数量对发表论文的科学生产力产生了负面影响。这对男女都适用。结论青年科技工作者的职业前景需要根据其具体的职业水平和生活状况进行个性化支持。
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Cognition Technology & Work
Cognition Technology & Work ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL-
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期刊介绍: Cognition, Technology & Work focuses on the practical issues of human interaction with technology within the context of work and, in particular, how human cognition affects, and is affected by, work and working conditions. The aim is to publish research that normally resides on the borderline between people, technology, and organisations. Including how people use information technology, how experience and expertise develop through work, and how incidents and accidents are due to the interaction between individual, technical and organisational factors. The target is thus the study of people at work from a cognitive systems engineering and socio-technical systems perspective. The most relevant working contexts of interest to CTW are those where the impact of modern technologies on people at work is particularly important for the users involved as well as for the effects on the environment and plants. Modern society has come to depend on the safe and efficient functioning of a multitude of technological systems as diverse as industrial production, transportation, communication, supply of energy, information and materials, health and finance.
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