Social Support, Self-Efficacy, and Well-Being of Employees Pursuing Work from Home: A Comparative Study Among Male and Female

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we live and work. The study aimed to compare the social support, self-efficacy, and well-being of male and female employees pursuing work from home during COVID-19. 100 adults pursuing work from home between the ages of 22 to 35 were selected for the purpose. Psychological measures for data collection were sent via google forms. In order to analyze the data obtained and examine the relationships between variables, the means and standard deviations (SD) of all the variables under study were calculated for both males and females. The significant difference between male and female employees pursuing work from home among all variables was discovered using an independent t-test. Results showed that the Mean scores for females are higher than that of males among the Social Support variable and Self-efficacy, and Well-being variables mean scores of males were higher than females. The Standard deviation (S.D.) for females was low than that of males among variable Social Support while it was less among variables Self-efficacy and Well-being. There was a significant difference exists between male and female groups as the value of the dimensions of the social support test was, Significant other (t=2.73, p>0.01) significant at 0.01, and t value of Family (t=2.72, p>0.01), Friends (t=3.94, p>0.01), MSPSS Total (t=3.56, p>0.01), Self-efficacy (t=3.67, p>0.01), and Well-being (t=3.7, p>0.01). According to the results, it was concluded that there was a significant difference between male and female employees pursuing work-from-home among all variables.