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. 2020 Jul 18;55:102197. doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102197

Table 1.

Summary of Research Opportunities.

Broad topic/issue Focal issues Additional comments: Ideas/issues to study
Impacts on jobs Job loss
  • Consequences

Beyond the focal issues in the next two columns, there could be an interplay across the issues (including an interplay across constructs/groups of constructs)
  • Searching for a new job

Job changes
  • Nature of work including job demands, job control

  • Personality, including technology-related traits, and its impacts

Job outcomes
  • Job performance

  • Job satisfaction

  • Job stress

  • Organizational commitment

  • Employee well-being

Coping
  • Coping strategies

  • Role of personality

Support
  • Effective support interventions

  • Role of personality

Impacts on life Home life changes
  • Home demands

Beyond the focal issues in the next two columns, there could be an interplay across the issues (including an interplay across constructs/groups of constructs)
  • Pressure on various relationships

Children
  • Changes in activities of children

  • Supporting children

Life-related outcomes
  • Stress

  • Happiness

  • Life satisfaction

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Relationship satisfaction

Social life
  • Changes to social life

  • Feasible alternatives

Support
  • Support to cope with demands

Overarching possible research directions and considerations Focal groups
  • Underprivileged populations

  • Different countries, different cultural contexts

  • Differential impact on women vs. men

  • Healthcare workers

  • Elderly and at-risk groups

General issues and special considerations
  • Role of technology

  • Pre- vs. post-COVID studies

  • COVID constraints to research in general and data collection in particular

  • Evolution of COVID and need to continue research

  • Focus on contextualization around COVID (generalizability is not important)