By | June 9, 2021
If you are lucky enough to still have a job, simply having that job may be one of the best ways for you to maintain your wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s one of the conclusions drawn from two recent pieces of research carried out by my organization, The Myers-Briggs Company.
People are less negative about day-to-day work-life than the overall COVID picture
As part of a survey into how people’s personality type influenced their feelings about the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked participants both about their general concerns regarding the crisis, and also about specific aspects of their working lives and their attitudes to the pandemic. When people were asked to come up with words that described their feelings about the situation, negative words predominated, especially around being anxious, worried, concerned, fearful or scared. Words around uncertainty, confusion, chaos and the unknown, around being frustrated, angry, annoyed, or irritated, around being stressed, overwhelmed, tired or exhausted, and around being sad, depressed, emotional or heartbroken were also fairly common.
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