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Title: Role boundary management during Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of focus group data with working-student mothers
Authors: Andrade, Cláudia
Fernandes, Joana Lobo 
Keywords: Working-student-mothers; role boundary management; COVID-19
Issue Date: 2021
Serial title, monograph or event: Psicologia Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia
Volume: 35
Issue: 1
Abstract: This qualitative study explores the experiences of role boundary management of working- student mothers during COVID-19 pandemic shelter in place order. A thematic analysis was used to examine the experiences and consequences of role blurring due to remote work, school closures, and remote learning and the strategies used to cope with the demands of three roles – being a mother, a worker, and a student. Eight participants enrolled in higher education programs participated in a focus group using Zoom technology. Several experiences of role blurring and barriers to satisfactorily manage all the roles emerged from the analysis. Strategies to cope with permanent demands seemed to have had only a small effect on working-student mothers' adjustment and well-being as they navigated through the days of shelter in place order. Implications for a better understanding of the experience and impacts of role boundary management during COVID-19 are discussed.
Este estudo qualitativo aborda as experiências de mães trabalhadoras-estudantes na gestão de fronteiras entre papéis durante o período de confinamento devido à pandemia por COVID-19. Recorreu-se à análise temática para analisar as experiências e as consequências do esbatimento de fronteiras entre papéis decorrente das circunstâncias de trabalho remoto, encerramento das escolas e aprendizagem à distância assim como as estratégias usadas para lidar com as solicitações decorrentes dos três papéis, a saber: mãe, trabalhadora e estudante. Participaram no focus group via Zoom oito estudantes do ensino superior, tendo emergido diversas experiências do esbatimento de fronteiras entre papéis e barreiras a uma conciliação satisfatória de todos estes. Analisaram-se as estratégias para lidar com as solicitações permanentes, sendo que estas parecem ter um efeito reduzido no ajustamento e no bem-estar das mães trabalhadoras-estudantes no dia-a-dia de confinamento. Analisaram-se ainda as implicações da experiência e do impacto do confinamento na gestão dos papéis desempenhados.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/113202
ISSN: 2183-2471
0874-2049
DOI: 10.17575/psicologia.v35i1.1694
Rights: openAccess
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