Avaliação da relação entre parentalidade, burnout e outros fatores individuais em trabalhadores brasileiros durante a pandemia de COVID-19

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Arenas, Daniel Luccas
• Orientador(a): Hauck, Simone
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Português: Esgotamento profissional; Pais; COVID-19; Pandemias; Teletrabalho
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Telework; Parenting; Burnout; Procrastination
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/237440

Work is a central part of human life. With technological advances and cultural, social, and economic changes, the work scene is constantly changing. In 2020, due to the establishment of measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of people working from home (WFH) grew exponentially. In this context, potential consequences on the family structure, the work environment, and the workers' mental health have been a focus of concern, especially when schools, daycare centers, and workplaces were closed. In this way, this dissertation comprises an online cross-sectional study that aimed to assess the relationship between parenting, burnout, procrastination, work mode, and other individual factors during the COVID-19 pandemic in the months of July-September/2020. We recruited for convenience Brazilian workers over 18 years old. The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) was used to assess burnout levels. It comprises three dimensions divided into three independent subscales: personal burnout (BP), work-related burnout (WB), and client-related burnout (CB). The Irrational Procrastination Questionnaire (IPS) was used to assess procrastination levels. We produced two articles: the first article included 435 participants and focused on the relationships between parenting, procrastination, and burnout in WFH workers compared to face-to-face workers; the second article included 196 women working from home and evaluated factors related to higher levels of burnout in mothers. In the first article, there was no difference in the CBI between the work modalities, although the WFH group had slightly higher levels of procrastination. Parents had lower levels of procrastination and burnout when compared to non-parents. However, parents with children under 12 years old had higher levels of procrastination and burnout when compared to non-parents. Mothers had higher levels of burnout on all CBI subscales compared to fathers. In a Poisson multiple regression model, clinically significant levels of burnout were associated with being female, increased childcare load, and living with children under 12 years old. In the second article, mothers who lived with children under 12 years old had higher levels of burnout in the PB and WB dimensions. In a multiple linear regression model, increased childcare load was more closely related to high levels of burnout in all CBI subscales, being more significant than increased workload itself. These results suggest that WFH appears to have more advantages than disadvantages under ideal conditions. However, imbalances between professional and family life - particularly in the unequal distribution of work and responsibilities between genders - seem to be a fundamental aspect of the suffering among workers, especially among women with young children. Thus, future studies are needed to understand which workers are more vulnerable and establish preventive interventions during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.