A Configurational Evaluation of Spanish Teleworkers’ Perception and Nonperception of Stress during the Covid-19 Pandemic

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ID13024874
AutoresJorge De Andrés-Sánchez (0000-0002-7715-779X, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume13
Fascículo8
Páginas178-178
Data de publicação2023-07-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocieties (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2075-4698 • E-ISSN: 2075-4698
EditoraMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/soc13080178
OpenAlexW4385346177
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas63

This paper assesses the explanatory power of individual, environmental, and job factors on Spanish telecommuters’ presence and absence of stress in a home telework setting during the COVID-19 crisis. It uses a survey of the Spanish agency “Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas” on the perceptions of the Spanish population about several aspects of information communication technologies (ICTs) that was carried out in March 2021. We use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to capture how factors combine to enable and inhibit stress feeling. The perception of stress is less covered by fsQCA configurations than the nonperception. However, fsQCA provides profiles that cause stress feelings and nonstress feelings with great consistency. We have checked that overload is the most important variable to explain stress. Likewise, fsQCA has also shown that while some variables, such as overload, isolation, non-adequacy, or organizational support, impact symmetrically on the presence and absence of stress perception, other factors, such as attaining a satisfactory work-home balance or gender, impact them asymmetrically. From a practical point of view, we can outline that clearer regulation of teleworking is needed to prevent imbalances in rights and obligations between companies and employees. However, there are also several challenges at the organization and worker level

Agency (philosophy · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Feeling · Pandemic · Perception · Qualitative comparative analysis · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior · Management and Organizational Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research · Social Psychology