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- Title
Caught between Scylla and Charybdis: How Economic Stressors and Occupational Risk Factors Influence Workers' Occupational Health Reactions to COVID‐19.
- Authors
Sinclair, Robert R.; Probst, Tahira M.; Watson, Gwendolyn Paige; Bazzoli, Andrea
- Abstract
Workers and their families bear much of the economic burden of COVID‐19. Even though they have declined somewhat, unemployment rates are considerably higher than before the start of the pandemic. Many workers also face uncertainty about their future employment prospects and increasing financial strain. At the same time, the workplace is a common source of transmission of COVID‐19 and many jobs previously seen as relatively safe are now viewed as potentially hazardous. Thus, many workers face dual threats of economic stress and COVID‐19 exposure. This paper develops a model of workers' responses to these dual threats, including risk perception and resource depletion as mediating factors that influence the relationship of economic stress and occupational risk factors with COVID‐19 compliance‐related attitudes, safe behavior at work, and physical and mental health outcomes. The paper also describes contextual moderators of these relationships at the individual, unit, and regional level. Directions for future research are discussed.
- Subjects
ATTITUDE (Psychology); BLUE collar workers; EMPLOYEE attitudes; HEALTH behavior; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; INDUSTRIAL safety; MATHEMATICAL models; RISK perception; WORK environment; THEORY; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; OCCUPATIONAL exposure
- Publication
Applied Psychology: An International Review, 2021, Vol 70, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0269-994X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/apps.12301