Meng, Junyi, Suárez, Lidia, Yip, Chad C.E., and Marsh, Nigel V. (2025) White-Collar Workers in the Post-Pandemic Era: A Review of Risk and Protective Factors for Mental Well-Being. Behavioral Sciences, 15 (10). 1313.

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Abstract

This narrative literature review aims to explore the risk and protective factors influencing the mental well-being of white-collar workers in the post-pandemic era. It investigates how factors vary across different phases, including pre-pandemic traditional work models, work-from-home or hybrid models during the pandemic, and the recovery phase of returning to the office in the post-pandemic era. This review highlights the diverse nature of related factors, examining constructs including stress, depression, burnout, thriving, work engagement, workaholism, motivation, workplace civility, and resilience. The Job Demands-Resources model, a recognized theoretical tool for analyzing and understanding the interactions between psychological constructs and their effects on employee well-being and turnover intention, is proposed as a useful framework to consider the relationships between the factors. By synthesizing existing research findings, this review contributes to our understanding of the complex interplay between work-related factors and employee well-being in the evolving landscape of the post-pandemic world. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for developing effective strategies to support white-collar workers’ mental well-being and productivity in the post-pandemic era.

Item ID:	89032
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2076-328X
Keywords:	workplace stress; employee well-being; turnover intention; white-collar worker; COVID-19; Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model; occupational health psychology; narrative literature review
Copyright Information:	© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Date Deposited:	30 Sep 2025 02:35
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