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Working from home, work-time control and mental health: Results from the Brazilian longitudinal study of adult health (ELSA-Brasil)
Originally published 2022-10-03 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993317 ↗
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about homeworking arrangements that consider both hours and control; the original evidence concerns 2318 ELSA-Brasil participants working from home during the pandemic.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Is control over work time different from simply working fewer hours?
This reading brings work-time control, hours worked and mental-health reports among Brazilian homeworkers into the independence pathway. The cross-sectional analysis within an established cohort offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
2318 ELSA-Brasil participants working from home during the pandemic
Age / stage: Working adults; results compared by sex
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess work-time control and the hours-control combinations?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about sex-specific associations within a cross-sectional cohort analysis?
- What would need to be checked before adopting homeworking arrangements that consider both hours and control?
Keep the limits in view
Although drawn from a longitudinal cohort, this analysis is cross-sectional; pandemic self-reports cannot establish that time control causes better mental health.
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Rosane Harter Griep; Maria da Conceição C. Almeida; Sandhi Maria Barreto; André R. Brunoni; Bruce B. Duncan; Luana Giatti; José Geraldo Mill; Maria del Carmen B. Molina; Arlinda B. Moreno; Ana Luisa Patrão; Maria Inês Schmidt; Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca (2022). Working from home, work-time control and mental health: Results from the Brazilian longitudinal study of adult health (ELSA-Brasil) Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.993317
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