The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to numerous aspects of work such as working conditions, workload, income, nature of duties, or work-home balance that may eventually pose significant risks to employee well-being and career development. Using a person-centred approach, we examined how these changes cluster together, defining the experiences of different employee sub-groups. We then compared these groups regarding their background characteristics and selected aspects of occupational well-being (i.e., job satisfaction, job insecurity, turnover intention, work engagement, and exhaustion). A sample of professionally active adults (N = 600; 55% women) completed a baseline cross-sectional survey, while a subsample (n = 426) further responded to brief daily questionnaires, reporting their job satisfaction, engagement, and exhaustion over a course of five workdays. Results suggested three different patterns (i.e., latent classes) of pandemic-related changes at work. They characterized workers who experienced a strong decline in their workload and income (‘precarious’), those who experienced an increase in workload and a change in the quality of working conditions (‘challenged’), and those whose work situation was mostly unaffected (‘status quo’). These worker groups differed regarding their personal and professional background as well as occupational well-being outcomes. Those more strongly affected by the pandemic (the challenged or precarious pattern) were more likely to show initial background vulnerabilities, while those in the status quo group were more likely to benefit from working from home and reported the least detrimental outcomes. We discuss the implications of these findings within the conservation of resources and career sustainability frameworks.
{"title":"Working Life During the Pandemic: Experienced Changes and their Implications for Occupational Well-being among Employees in Switzerland","authors":"I. Urbanavičiūtė, F. Gander, Koorosh Massoudi","doi":"10.5334/spo.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.39","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented changes to numerous aspects of work such as working conditions, workload, income, nature of duties, or work-home balance that may eventually pose significant risks to employee well-being and career development. Using a person-centred approach, we examined how these changes cluster together, defining the experiences of different employee sub-groups. We then compared these groups regarding their background characteristics and selected aspects of occupational well-being (i.e., job satisfaction, job insecurity, turnover intention, work engagement, and exhaustion).\u0000A sample of professionally active adults (N = 600; 55% women) completed a baseline cross-sectional survey, while a subsample (n = 426) further responded to brief daily questionnaires, reporting their job satisfaction, engagement, and exhaustion over a course of five workdays.\u0000Results suggested three different patterns (i.e., latent classes) of pandemic-related changes at work. They characterized workers who experienced a strong decline in their workload and income (‘precarious’), those who experienced an increase in workload and a change in the quality of working conditions (‘challenged’), and those whose work situation was mostly unaffected (‘status quo’). These worker groups differed regarding their personal and professional background as well as occupational well-being outcomes. Those more strongly affected by the pandemic (the challenged or precarious pattern) were more likely to show initial background vulnerabilities, while those in the status quo group were more likely to benefit from working from home and reported the least detrimental outcomes. We discuss the implications of these findings within the conservation of resources and career sustainability frameworks.","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128331667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philipp Röthlin, Stephan Horvath, Nadja Ackeret, C. Peter, D. Birrer
Mental health is an important topic in competitive sports, but there is only limited data from Switzerland. Although mental health is a prominent topic, it is difficult to estimate the efforts of Swiss sports federations to promote mental health. A representative sample of Swiss athletes (N = 1003, M age = 21.69, SD age = 7.09, 54% women, 37% team sports, 10% injured) answered questions about symptoms of mental health problems and their well-being. We also asked about the extent of basic need satisfaction and perceived organizational support. Overall, the numbers on symptoms of mental health problems (17% depression, 10% anxiety, 22% eating disorders, 18% sleep disorders) and well-being are comparable to other elite sport samples and the general Swiss population. However, we found large group differences. For example, 52% of women athletes were affected by at least one mental disorder symptom, compared with 30% of men athletes. Injured athletes were most affected in terms of depressive symptoms. The study also shows that need satisfaction and frustration in conjunction with demographic factors is related to well-being and symptoms of mental health problems. Furthermore, the more support athletes perceive from their federations, the better their mental health. We conclude that a substantial proportion of athletes are affected by symptoms of mental disorders and more measures are needed to improve this situation, for example through supporting need satisfaction in the sport setting.
{"title":"The Mental Health of Swiss Elite Athletes","authors":"Philipp Röthlin, Stephan Horvath, Nadja Ackeret, C. Peter, D. Birrer","doi":"10.5334/spo.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.49","url":null,"abstract":"Mental health is an important topic in competitive sports, but there is only limited data from Switzerland. Although mental health is a prominent topic, it is difficult to estimate the efforts of Swiss sports federations to promote mental health. A representative sample of Swiss athletes (N = 1003, M age = 21.69, SD age = 7.09, 54% women, 37% team sports, 10% injured) answered questions about symptoms of mental health problems and their well-being. We also asked about the extent of basic need satisfaction and perceived organizational support. Overall, the numbers on symptoms of mental health problems (17% depression, 10% anxiety, 22% eating disorders, 18% sleep disorders) and well-being are comparable to other elite sport samples and the general Swiss population. However, we found large group differences. For example, 52% of women athletes were affected by at least one mental disorder symptom, compared with 30% of men athletes. Injured athletes were most affected in terms of depressive symptoms. The study also shows that need satisfaction and frustration in conjunction with demographic factors is related to well-being and symptoms of mental health problems. Furthermore, the more support athletes perceive from their federations, the better their mental health. We conclude that a substantial proportion of athletes are affected by symptoms of mental disorders and more measures are needed to improve this situation, for example through supporting need satisfaction in the sport setting.","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"229 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116081129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The combination of a replication crisis, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and recent technological advances, have accelerated the on-going transition of research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience to the online realm. When participants cannot be tested in-person, data of acceptable quality can still be collected online. While online research offers many advantages, numerous pitfalls may hinder researchers in addressing their questions appropriately, potentially resulting in unusable data and misleading conclusions. Here, we present an overview of the costs and benefits of conducting online studies in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, coupled with detailed best practice suggestions that span the range from initial study design to the final interpretation of data. These suggestions offer a critical look at issues regarding recruitment of typical and (sub)clinical samples, their comparison, and the importance of context-dependency in each part of a study. We illustrate our suggestions by means of a fictional online study, applicable to traditional paradigms such as research on working memory with a control and treatment group.
{"title":"How to Run Behavioural Experiments Online: Best Practice Suggestions for Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience","authors":"Nathan Gagné, Léon Franzen","doi":"10.5334/spo.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.34","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of a replication crisis, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and recent technological advances, have accelerated the on-going transition of research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience to the online realm. When participants cannot be tested in-person, data of acceptable quality can still be collected online. While online research offers many advantages, numerous pitfalls may hinder researchers in addressing their questions appropriately, potentially resulting in unusable data and misleading conclusions. Here, we present an overview of the costs and benefits of conducting online studies in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, coupled with detailed best practice suggestions that span the range from initial study design to the final interpretation of data. These suggestions offer a critical look at issues regarding recruitment of typical and (sub)clinical samples, their comparison, and the importance of context-dependency in each part of a study. We illustrate our suggestions by means of a fictional online study, applicable to traditional paradigms such as research on working memory with a control and treatment group.","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135450398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As a global crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic struck everyone hard. As an extraordinary, unforeseeable, and uncontrollable event, it qualifies as a career shock. Since young people early in their careers were in crucial stages of their development at the time social distancing started, they specifically suffered. According to Conservation of Resources Theory (COR Theory), individuals with higher resources are less affected by challenges. Resilience and social support are important during crises, as they help in dealing with setbacks. Our study followed a group of German bachelor students (N = 797) at three time points: in January 2020, during the first period of social distancing in April, and afterwards in June 2020. We assume that individuals with high resilience and support network quality have fewer thoughts about their career as consequence of the pandemic and thus cope better and stay confident in their vocational choice. Findings reveal that especially resilience influences the thought process triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: more resilient students also think less about their career as a consequence of the pandemic. Furthermore, at the same measurement point, those thought processes influenced the confidence in vocational choice negatively. These results, aligning with COR Theory, underline the importance of resources in dealing with career shocks. Furthermore, they show that those thought processes have a direct influence on confidence in vocational choice, possibly influencing individuals’ career paths. Since both resilience and social networks can be influenced, we recommend different measures for universities, students, and society in coping with the aftermath of the pandemic.
{"title":"How Do Social Support and Personal Resilience Assure Confidence in Vocational Choice in Times of the Pandemic?","authors":"Stephanie Hirschberger, Britta Wittner, Simone Kauffeld","doi":"10.5334/spo.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.48","url":null,"abstract":"As a global crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic struck everyone hard. As an extraordinary, unforeseeable, and uncontrollable event, it qualifies as a career shock. Since young people early in their careers were in crucial stages of their development at the time social distancing started, they specifically suffered. According to Conservation of Resources Theory (COR Theory), individuals with higher resources are less affected by challenges. Resilience and social support are important during crises, as they help in dealing with setbacks. Our study followed a group of German bachelor students (N = 797) at three time points: in January 2020, during the first period of social distancing in April, and afterwards in June 2020. We assume that individuals with high resilience and support network quality have fewer thoughts about their career as consequence of the pandemic and thus cope better and stay confident in their vocational choice. Findings reveal that especially resilience influences the thought process triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic: more resilient students also think less about their career as a consequence of the pandemic. Furthermore, at the same measurement point, those thought processes influenced the confidence in vocational choice negatively. These results, aligning with COR Theory, underline the importance of resources in dealing with career shocks. Furthermore, they show that those thought processes have a direct influence on confidence in vocational choice, possibly influencing individuals’ career paths. Since both resilience and social networks can be influenced, we recommend different measures for universities, students, and society in coping with the aftermath of the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"185 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135596240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Lachance, L. Cournoyer, Chloé Lacoursière, L. Richer
{"title":"Changes Induced by the Containment Measures of the First COVID-19 Wave: A Scoping Review on Work-Family Balance Regarding Working Parents","authors":"L. Lachance, L. Cournoyer, Chloé Lacoursière, L. Richer","doi":"10.5334/spo.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125344715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Performance and Likability of the Federal Council of Switzerland Is Assessed More Positively than That of its Members on Average.","authors":"C. Messner, Mattia Carnelli, P. Höhener","doi":"10.5334/spo.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.45","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121984409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online Group Employment Counselling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Attitudes Toward Online Counselling","authors":"Francis Milot-Lapointe, Patricia Dionne","doi":"10.5334/spo.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.47","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128163622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A French Version of the Action Control Scale (ACS-Fr): Psychometric Properties and Predictive Power","authors":"Y. S. Bouzidi, G. Gendolla","doi":"10.5334/spo.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.37","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123792635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The combination of a replication crisis, global COVID-19 pandemic, and recent technological advances have accelerated the on-going transition of research in cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience to the online realm. When participants cannot be tested in-person in the laboratory, data of acceptable quality can be collected online still. While conducting research online has many advantages and generic advice on their infrastructure and implementation exists, numerous pitfalls can hinder researchers addressing their research question appropriately or even result in unusable data. Here, we present detailed best practice suggestions that span the range from initial study design to the final interpretation of the data. These suggestions take a critical look at issues regarding the recruitment of typical and (sub)clinical samples, their comparison, and the importance of context dependency for each part of a study. We illustrate our suggestions by means of arecent online study investigating cognitive working memory skills in adult dyslexia.
{"title":"How to run behavioural experiments online: best practice suggestions for cognitive psychology and neuroscience","authors":"Nathan Gagné, L. Franzen","doi":"10.31234/osf.io/nt67j","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nt67j","url":null,"abstract":"The combination of a replication crisis, global COVID-19 pandemic, and recent technological advances have accelerated the on-going transition of research in cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience to the online realm. When participants cannot be tested in-person in the laboratory, data of acceptable quality can be collected online still. While conducting research online has many advantages and generic advice on their infrastructure and implementation exists, numerous pitfalls can hinder researchers addressing their research question appropriately or even result in unusable data. Here, we present detailed best practice suggestions that span the range from initial study design to the final interpretation of the data. These suggestions take a critical look at issues regarding the recruitment of typical and (sub)clinical samples, their comparison, and the importance of context dependency for each part of a study. We illustrate our suggestions by means of arecent online study investigating cognitive working memory skills in adult dyslexia.","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114321467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Rothen, M. Burtscher, F. Gobet, G. Mantzouranis, J. Mayor, Angelo Pirrone, S. Raeder, Meike Ramon, J. Rossier
{"title":"The Beginning of a New Era","authors":"N. Rothen, M. Burtscher, F. Gobet, G. Mantzouranis, J. Mayor, Angelo Pirrone, S. Raeder, Meike Ramon, J. Rossier","doi":"10.5334/spo.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5334/spo.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":164739,"journal":{"name":"Swiss Psychology Open","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127114137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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