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Role boundary management during Covid-19 pandemic: A qualitative analysis of focus group data with working-student mothers
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This qualitative study explores the experiences of role boundary management of workingstudent 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.
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Working-student-mothers role boundary management COVID-19 Mães trabalhadoras-estudantes gestão de fronteiras entre papéis
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Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia