Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Health Promotion and Health Education, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Front Public Health. 2024 Mar 7;12:1304319. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1304319. eCollection 2024.
In March 2020 many countries around the world, including Finland, implemented lockdown measures to mitigate the unprecedented impacts of the coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) on public health. As a result, school and daycare settings closed indefinitely and working from home became the new normal for a big part of the workforce, which came with increased homeschooling and childcare responsibility for mothers.
In this article we present the findings from maternal responses to open ended questions on psychosocial well-being, and experiences of combining work, family life and homeschooling during the COVID-19 national lockdown in Finland in March-May 2020. Working mothers' responses ( = 72) were analyzed through the lens of Karasek's job demand-control model, focusing on how the mothers experienced the demands of their life during the lockdown, and how they saw their possibilities to control the situation.
The findings indicated important variation in the level of experienced demand and control and associated compensatory factors during the COVID-19 lockdown across different subgroups of working mothers.
The findings have implications for understanding strain and plausible supports among working mothers during the COVID-19 lockdown as well as in the face of acute adversity including the next possible public health crisis.
2020 年 3 月，包括芬兰在内的许多国家实施了封锁措施，以减轻冠状病毒病（COVID-19）对公共卫生的前所未有的影响。因此，学校和日托机构无限期关闭，在家工作成为劳动力中很大一部分人的新常态，这带来了更多的家庭教育和儿童保育责任给母亲。
在本文中，我们展示了芬兰在 2020 年 3 月至 5 月 COVID-19 国家封锁期间，从母亲对社会心理福祉的开放式问题的回答中得出的发现，以及在 COVID-19 期间结合工作、家庭生活和家庭教育的经验。通过 Karasek 的工作需求-控制模型分析了职业母亲的反应，重点关注母亲在封锁期间如何体验生活中的需求，以及她们如何看待自己控制局势的可能性。
研究结果表明，在 COVID-19 封锁期间，不同职业母亲亚组的需求和控制水平以及相关的补偿因素存在重要差异。
这些发现对于理解 COVID-19 封锁期间职业母亲的紧张情绪和可能的支持以及应对急性逆境（包括下一次可能的公共卫生危机）具有重要意义。
