Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review

Habibi Aripin and Carol Hiew Ka Low and Julazrie Benjamin and Lee Yee Fang and Nicky Welly James and Nurul Syafia Syahwanie Al-amin and Roslinah Mahmud (2021) Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review.

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Abstract

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that results in persistent pandemics and affects the global economy, society, political, psychology and environment around the world. It is important to realize that it could affect individual in different ways including resulting in the mental health and well-being of employees. Therefore, the purpose of this study is determinants the causes of the rising in mental health issue among employees during Covid-19 and finally to suggest recommendations to reduce the outcomes of COVID-19 on employees’ mental health. This paper is a review of the literature. Article searches are made in Google, Web Science and Semantic scholars. We use a combination of terms related to coronavirus, workplace and mental health. The result of this study shows that financial concern and instability of jobs, stigma and social exclusion, quarantine and isolation, fear or anxiety of exposure to the virus, and changes in the new workplace environment are the causes of the rising in mental health issue among employees during COVID-19. Furthermore, stigma protection, social support, return-to-work schedule development, mitigate the psychological effects of quarantine and training are suggestion that have been recommend reducing the outcomes of COVID-19 on employees’ mental health.

Item Type: Proceedings
Keyword: Mental health , Pandemic
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF1-990 Psychology
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28-9999 Industries. Land use. Labor > HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class
Department: FACULTY > Faculty of Business, Economics and Accounting
Depositing User: DG MASNIAH AHMAD -
Date Deposited: 22 Dec 2021 15:19
Last Modified: 22 Dec 2021 15:19
URI: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31500

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