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RETRACTED: Perceived stress and psychological well-being of working mothers during COVID-19: a mediated moderated roles of teleworking and resilience

Vartika Kapoor, Jaya Yadav, Lata Bajpai, Shalini Srivastava

Employee Relations

ISSN: 0142-5455

Article publication date: 2 April 2021

Issue publication date: 1 October 2021

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This article was retracted on 27 Jan 2025.

Retraction notice

The publisher of the Journal of Organizational Change Management wishes to retract the article Kapoor, V., Yadav, J., Bajpai, L. and Srivastava, S. (2021), “Perceived stress and psychological well-being of working mothers during COVID-19: a mediated moderated roles of teleworking and resilience”, Employee Relations, Vol. 43 No. 6, pp. 1290-1309. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-05-2020-0244

It has come to our attention that a large portion of this article's models, samples, and results are taken, without full and proper attribution, from an earlier original work Srivastava, S. and Dey, B. (2020), “Workplace bullying and job burnout: A moderated mediation model of emotional intelligence and hardiness”, International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-02-2019-1664. The submission guidelines for the International Journal of Organizational Analysis make it clear that articles must be original and not infringe any existing copyright. On investigation of this matter, further concerns were raised with regard to the data used as the same analysis employed in the earlier work was also applied here despite the two articles looking at fundamentally different contexts. As such, the findings of this article cannot be relied upon. Author LS does not agree with this retraction.

Abstract

Purpose

The present study examines the mediating role of teleworking and the moderating role of resilience in explaining the relationship between perceived stress and psychological well-being of working mothers in India. Conservation of resource theory (COR) is taken to support the present study.

Design/methodology/approach

The data of 326 respondents has been collected from working mothers in various sectors of Delhi NCR region of India. Confirmatory factor analysis was used for construct validity, and SPSS Macro Process (Hayes) was used for testing the hypotheses.

Findings

The results of the study found an inverse association between perceived stress and psychological well-being. Teleworking acted as a partial mediator and resilience proved to be a significant moderator for teleworking-well-being relationship.

Research limitations/implications

The study is based at Delhi NCR of India, and future studies may be based on a diverse population within the country to generalize the findings in different cultural and industrial contexts. The present work is based only on the psychological well-being of the working mothers, it can be extended to study the organizational stress for both the genders and other demographic variables.

Practical implications

The study extends the research on perceived stress and teleworking by empirically testing the association between perceived stress and psychological well-being in the presence of teleworking as a mediating variable. The findings suggest some practical implications for HR managers and OD Practitioners. The organizations must develop a plan to support working mothers by providing flexible working hours and arranging online stress management programs for them.

Originality/value

Although teleworking is studied previously, there is a scarcity of research examining the impact of teleworking on psychological well-being of working mothers in Asian context. It would help in understanding the process that how teleworking has been stressful for working mothers and also deliberate the role of resilience in the relationship between teleworking and psychological well-being due to perceived stress, as it seems a ray of hope in new normal work situations.

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Citation

Kapoor, V., Yadav, J., Bajpai, L. and Srivastava, S. (2021), "RETRACTED: Perceived stress and psychological well-being of working mothers during COVID-19: a mediated moderated roles of teleworking and resilience", Employee Relations, Vol. 43 No. 6, pp. 1290-1309. https://doi.org/10.1108/ER-05-2020-0244

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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