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 Volume 11, Issue 3 (March 2024), Pages: 1-7

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 Review Paper

Factors influencing the emotional health effects of female employees working from home: A literature review

 Author(s): 

 Raja Zirwatul Aida Raja Ibrahim, Nurul Fadzlin Abu Samah, Siti Nazilah Mat Ali *, Mazidah Mohd Dagang, Jumadil Saputra

 Affiliation(s):

 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3045-3399

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2024.03.001

 Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes worldwide, including the loss of many lives. Governments have directed many employees to work from home (WFH) during this period. This study explores how job demands and work-family conflicts affect the emotional well-being of employees, specifically looking at depression and emotional exhaustion while working from home. It employs a quantitative method, distributing surveys to female employees who are working from home. The results of this research will enhance our understanding of the emotional impacts on female employees and provide guidance for future counseling strategies to address the challenges of working from home.

 © 2024 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords

 Women employee, Emotional well-being, Health, Work from home

 Article history

 Received 28 April 2023, Received in revised form 28 January 2024, Accepted 4 February 2024

 Acknowledgment 

This research has been funded by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia, through the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Project Code (FRGS/1/2021/SS0/UMT/02/8). Also, we are grateful to the Research Management Office (RMO), Universiti Malaysia Terengganu.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Ibrahim RZAR, Samah NFA, Ali SNM, Dagang MM, and Saputra J (2024). Factors influencing the emotional health effects of female employees working from home: A literature review. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 11(3): 1-7

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