Coping Skills and Well-being of Indian Employees

COVID-19 spread like wildfire globally towards the beginning of 2020. This period presented unforeseen and unprecedented challenges before the country’s citizens, specifically the working class. However, this also presents an opportunity to study psychological phenomena such as the coping skills and well-being of the employees during the lockdown period. This research aimed to study the significant difference in essential services and work from home employees’ mental well-being and coping strategies during COVID-19. The data were collected through an online survey of 171 participants, out of which 90 were ‘essential services’ and 81 were ‘work from home’ employees, using the Brief-cope and Warwick-Edinburgh Mental well-being scales. The results showed a significant difference in mental well-being between essential service and work from home employees. Work from home employees’ mental well-being is higher than that of essential services employees. It was also observed that the work from home employees used more approach coping strategies than essential services employees.