Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
The work-family interface and the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review
Originally published 2022-08-04 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.914474 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about crisis support that recognizes different household and work circumstances; the original evidence concerns 32 articles on pandemic work-family conflict, enrichment, balance or boundary management.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
What can a crisis teach us without becoming a blueprint for every family?
This reading brings mixed pandemic effects across paid and unpaid work, gender, parenting and boundaries into the kindness pathway. The systematic review with narrative thematic synthesis offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
32 articles on pandemic work-family conflict, enrichment, balance or boundary management
Age / stage: Adult, couple and parenting literature during COVID-19
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess the four work-family constructs included in the review?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about mixed findings across the eight thematic areas?
- What would need to be checked before adopting crisis support that recognizes different household and work circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The review synthesizes heterogeneous pandemic studies rather than a single causal estimate; effects on conflict and balance were not uniformly positive or negative.
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Beatriz de Araújo Vitória; Maria Teresa Ribeiro; Vânia Sofia Carvalho (2022). The work-family interface and the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.914474
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