Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that results in persistent pandemics and affects the global economy, society, political, psychology and environment around the world. It is important to realize that it could affect individual in different ways including resulting in the mental health...

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Main Authors: Habibi Aripin, Carol Hiew Ka Low, Julazrie Benjamin, Lee Yee Fang, Nicky Welly James, Nurul Syafia Syahwanie Al-amin, Roslinah Mahmud
Format: Proceedings
Language:English
English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2021
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31500/1/Employees%E2%80%99%20mental%20health%20issue%20during%20covid-19%2C%20A%20review-ABSTRACT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31500/2/Employees%E2%80%99%20Mental%20Health%20Issue%20During%20Covid-19%2C%20A%20Review.pdf
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Carol Hiew Ka Low
Julazrie Benjamin
Lee Yee Fang
Nicky Welly James
Nurul Syafia Syahwanie Al-amin
Roslinah Mahmud
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Roslinah Mahmud
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description Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that results in persistent pandemics and affects the global economy, society, political, psychology and environment around the world. It is important to realize that it could affect individual in different ways including resulting in the mental health and well-being of employees. Therefore, the purpose of this study is determinants the causes of the rising in mental health issue among employees during Covid-19 and finally to suggest recommendations to reduce the outcomes of COVID-19 on employees’ mental health. This paper is a review of the literature. Article searches are made in Google, Web Science and Semantic scholars. We use a combination of terms related to coronavirus, workplace and mental health. The result of this study shows that financial concern and instability of jobs, stigma and social exclusion, quarantine and isolation, fear or anxiety of exposure to the virus, and changes in the new workplace environment are the causes of the rising in mental health issue among employees during COVID-19. Furthermore, stigma protection, social support, return-to-work schedule development, mitigate the psychological effects of quarantine and training are suggestion that have been recommend reducing the outcomes of COVID-19 on employees’ mental health.
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spelling ums.eprints-315002021-12-22T07:19:42Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31500/ Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review Habibi Aripin Carol Hiew Ka Low Julazrie Benjamin Lee Yee Fang Nicky Welly James Nurul Syafia Syahwanie Al-amin Roslinah Mahmud BF1-990 Psychology HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an infectious disease that results in persistent pandemics and affects the global economy, society, political, psychology and environment around the world. It is important to realize that it could affect individual in different ways including resulting in the mental health and well-being of employees. Therefore, the purpose of this study is determinants the causes of the rising in mental health issue among employees during Covid-19 and finally to suggest recommendations to reduce the outcomes of COVID-19 on employees’ mental health. This paper is a review of the literature. Article searches are made in Google, Web Science and Semantic scholars. We use a combination of terms related to coronavirus, workplace and mental health. The result of this study shows that financial concern and instability of jobs, stigma and social exclusion, quarantine and isolation, fear or anxiety of exposure to the virus, and changes in the new workplace environment are the causes of the rising in mental health issue among employees during COVID-19. Furthermore, stigma protection, social support, return-to-work schedule development, mitigate the psychological effects of quarantine and training are suggestion that have been recommend reducing the outcomes of COVID-19 on employees’ mental health. Universiti Malaysia Sabah 2021 Proceedings PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31500/1/Employees%E2%80%99%20mental%20health%20issue%20during%20covid-19%2C%20A%20review-ABSTRACT.pdf text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31500/2/Employees%E2%80%99%20Mental%20Health%20Issue%20During%20Covid-19%2C%20A%20Review.pdf Habibi Aripin and Carol Hiew Ka Low and Julazrie Benjamin and Lee Yee Fang and Nicky Welly James and Nurul Syafia Syahwanie Al-amin and Roslinah Mahmud (2021) Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fEDZliMTjTzkjDwn3BF86-eXNMa8Gnc5/view?usp=sharing
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Nicky Welly James
Nurul Syafia Syahwanie Al-amin
Roslinah Mahmud
Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review
title Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review
title_full Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review
title_fullStr Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review
title_full_unstemmed Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review
title_short Employees’ mental health issue during covid-19: A review
title_sort employees mental health issue during covid 19 a review
topic BF1-990 Psychology
HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class
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