Intensity of Home-Based Telework and Work Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

“…Our study results showed that telework intensity was negatively related to intentions to continue working, supporting previous research that showed that only low to moderate telework intensity (i.e. 3 days per week to once per month) leads to high work engagement (Nagata et al. , 2021).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Our study results showed that telework intensity was negatively related to intentions to continue working, supporting previous research that showed that only low to moderate telework intensity (i.e. 3 days per week to once per month) leads to high work engagement (Nagata et al, 2021). Further, pandemic-induced telework was mandatory and employees and organizations had no time to prepare for teleworking, which negatively affected workers' well-being.…”

Section: Key Findings and Theoretical Contributionssupporting

confidence: 83%

Retirement decisions in times of COVID-19: the role of telework, ICT-related strain and social support on older workers’ intentions to continue working

Schellaert

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Derous

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2024

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

“…Two years after the pandemic began, the levels of depressive and anxiety disorders were not so high; however, many people still apparently experienced mild anxiety. Work engagement is a positive aspect of mental health; it was found to be 2.4 for men and 2.4 for women in a large Japanese survey conducted after the start of the pandemic (27); in this study we recorded figures of 2.4 and 2.5, respectively.…”

Section: Unique Site Visitorsupporting

confidence: 45%

Protocol of a study to benchmark occupational health and safety in Japan: W2S-Ohpm study

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Odagami

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et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

Self Cite

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

“…Two years after the pandemic began, the levels of depressive and anxiety disorders were not so high; however, many people still apparently experienced mild anxiety. Work engagement is a positive aspect of mental health; it was found to be 2.4 for men and 2.4 for women in a large Japanese survey conducted after the start of the pandemic (26); in this study we recorded figures of 2.4 and 2.5, respectively.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 47%

Protocol of a Study to Benchmark Occupational Health and Safety in Japan: W2S-Ohpm Study

¹

,

Odagami

²

,

³

et al. 2023

Preprint

Self Cite

Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.