Mental health and residential adaptations during the pandemic: a mixed-methods study of working mothers
Résumé
In the Spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed dwellings worldwide into focal points of daily life. This mixed-methods study examines how women in various residential situations adapted when faced with pandemic challenges and how their adaptations influenced meanings of home and mental health. A pool of 538 working mothers was identified from Quebec's MAVIPAN repeated measures survey to test if their residential situations, marked by their multiple social roles as mothers, workers, wives, or teachers, and various housing conditions, were associated with mental health and their meanings of home. Four profiles of residential situations were identified through multiple factor analysis (MFA), and 33 women belonging to these profiles were interviewed. Quantitative explorations and ChatGPT4-assisted thematic analysis revealed conditional associations linking vulnerable residential situations to adaptation difficulties, low mental health scores, and negative feelings toward home, applying to women in blended or single-parent families, in small dwellings, or self-employed.
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