@ARTICLE{33704756_805097106_2022, 
	author = {Md. Rahat Khan and Mihir Roy and Sabbir Chowdhury}, 
	keywords = {, Work-Family Balance, mental health, manufacturing employeesCOVID-19 pandemic},
	title = {The impact of work-family balance on manufacturing employees’ mental health during pandemic},
	journal = {Organizational Psychology},
	year = {2022},
	volume = {12},
	number = {4},
	pages = {29-40},
	url = {https://orgpsyjournal.hse.ru/en/2022-12-4/805097106.html},
	publisher = {},
	abstract = {Purpose. The study aimed to measure the impact of manufacturing employees’ high workpressure on the urge for their family-life balance, and the impact of high work-life pressure and the urge for family-life balance on manufacturing employees’ concern for mental health during COVID-19 pandemic from an emerging economy perspective. Methodology. The study has picked 20 items underthree different variables such as work-life, family-life, and mental health. The structured questionnaire has been developed based on the literature survey and divided into two parts. The initial part hascontained demographic information and the second part has contained measure items of the model. The questionnaire has been designed through Google Docs and distributed via Facebook messenger, E-mail, WhatsApp, IMO, etc. 400 data was collected through the snowball sampling technique and 201 data (response rate 50.25%) was found usable for the research. The exploratory factor analysis, confirmatoryfactor analysis, and structural equation modeling were run to test the proposed research framework with the help of MS Excel 2007, SPSS 22.0, and AMOS 23.0. Finding. The findings revealed that highwork-life pressure had a positive significant impact on the urge for family-life balance and both the highwork-life pressure and urge for family-life balance had a positive significant impact on manufacturing employees’ concern for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Originality. The novelty of thisresearch is the manufacturing employees’ context during the COVID-19 pandemic.},
	annote = {Purpose. The study aimed to measure the impact of manufacturing employees’ high workpressure on the urge for their family-life balance, and the impact of high work-life pressure and the urge for family-life balance on manufacturing employees’ concern for mental health during COVID-19 pandemic from an emerging economy perspective. Methodology. The study has picked 20 items underthree different variables such as work-life, family-life, and mental health. The structured questionnaire has been developed based on the literature survey and divided into two parts. The initial part hascontained demographic information and the second part has contained measure items of the model. The questionnaire has been designed through Google Docs and distributed via Facebook messenger, E-mail, WhatsApp, IMO, etc. 400 data was collected through the snowball sampling technique and 201 data (response rate 50.25%) was found usable for the research. The exploratory factor analysis, confirmatoryfactor analysis, and structural equation modeling were run to test the proposed research framework with the help of MS Excel 2007, SPSS 22.0, and AMOS 23.0. Finding. The findings revealed that highwork-life pressure had a positive significant impact on the urge for family-life balance and both the highwork-life pressure and urge for family-life balance had a positive significant impact on manufacturing employees’ concern for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Originality. The novelty of thisresearch is the manufacturing employees’ context during the COVID-19 pandemic.}
}