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<p>This study examines the influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees’ health, seeking to uncover effective managerial practices that can help employees cope with this pandemic. Drawing on the stress-reactive rumination theory, we theorized that daily newly cured and confirmed COVID-19 cases influenced employees’ burnout and physical health via COVID-19 rumination. In addition, we theorized that perceived government benevolence, leader empathy, and family centrality modify these effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical results based on multiwave, daily diary data from 152 full-time employees across ten executive working days largely support our conceptual model. Specifically, daily newly cured COVID-19 cases are positively related to employees’ health (i.e., decreased burnout and improved physical health) via decreased COVID-19 rumination, and daily newly confirmed COVID-19 cases are negatively related to employees’ health (i.e., increased burnout and deteriorated physical health) via increased COVID-19 rumination. Furthermore, we found that daily newly cured COVID-19 cases were more negatively related to COVID-19 rumination when perceived government benevolence was higher, when leader empathy was higher, or when family centrality was higher. We discussed the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.</p>

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The implications of COVID-19 for employee health: the moderating roles of perceived government benevolence, leader empathy, and family centrality

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    2025年5月17日

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  • Kong Zhou,
  • Jia Hu

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This study examines the influences of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees’ health, seeking to uncover effective managerial practices that can help employees cope with this pandemic. Drawing on the stress-reactive rumination theory, we theorized that daily newly cured and confirmed COVID-19 cases influenced employees’ burnout and physical health via COVID-19 rumination. In addition, we theorized that perceived government benevolence, leader empathy, and family centrality modify these effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Empirical results based on multiwave, daily diary data from 152 full-time employees across ten executive working days largely support our conceptual model. Specifically, daily newly cured COVID-19 cases are positively related to employees’ health (i.e., decreased burnout and improved physical health) via decreased COVID-19 rumination, and daily newly confirmed COVID-19 cases are negatively related to employees’ health (i.e., increased burnout and deteriorated physical health) via increased COVID-19 rumination. Furthermore, we found that daily newly cured COVID-19 cases were more negatively related to COVID-19 rumination when perceived government benevolence was higher, when leader empathy was higher, or when family centrality was higher. We discussed the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.