Psychological detachment from work predicts mental wellbeing of working-age adults: findings from the ‘Wellbeing of the Workforce’ (WoW) prospective longitudinal cohort study
Publication Date
July 11, 2024
Description
Aim: To explore the relationship between psychological detachment from work (postulated as a key recovery activity from work) in the first national COVID-19 lockdown with health, wellbeing, and life satisfaction of working age-adults one year later, within the context of a global pandemic. The data comes from the Wellbeing of the Workforce (WoW) which was a prospective longitudinal cohort study, with two waves of data collection (Time 1, April-June 2020: T1 n=337; Time 2, March-April 2021: T2=169) corresponding with the first and third national COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK.
Parent projects:
The Well-being of the Workforce during the COVID-19 Crisis: a mixed method study (Sponsor Ref: 03-0420).
Coverage (Temporal):
Broadly corresponding with the first and third national COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK. Wave 1 survey opened just weeks after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in the UK and remained open for six weeks during the first national lockdown across the UK. Wave 2 survey was administered during the height of the third national lockdown across the UK and remained open for five weeks.
Coverage (Spatial):
England
Collection dates:
Wave 1 collection dates: April to June 2020; Wave 2 collection dates: March to April 2021
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Divisions
University of Nottingham, UK Campus
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Data type
Dataset in IBM SPSS Statistics (Version 27). The variables used in the analysis are from online surveys and include nominal and scale variables.
Funders
NIHR Research Capability Funding
Grant Number
LT/JH (5th May 2020)
Data collection method
Data were collected via link to an online survey distributed at 2 time points, hosted on JISC Online Surveys platform.
Legal and ethical issues
The data are owned by the University of Nottingham. Participants in the surveys accessed an online participant information sheet, and online consent. Data are anonymised. All researchers were trained in research ethics and research methods.
Resource languages
English
Publisher
The University of Nottingham
Date Issued
July 11, 2024
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