Mental Health Among Working Professionals After COVID-19 Second Lockdown: The Influence of Personality Traits on Mental Health

Covid-19 pandemic has greater impact in the lives of people throughout the world in terms of finance, job, daily routine which brought significant changes in the life style and behaviour thus resulting in new habit formations. Covid -19 did not only result on the physical health of the people but in fact created a huge turn over in the mental health of the people. By government’s strict implementation of night curfew and restricting the operational hours from morning 6am to 10am, in stopping the spread of COVID-19 to adopt the new protective changes, it affected the individual’s mental health by creating unstable financial condition and uncertainty about the future, along with drop in the economy of the country. Restrictions due to covid-19 and insecurity among the working people ended up with the lower levels of life satisfaction. To continue with work, the companies started to make their employees work from home to protect the employee. The work from home scenario brought in lot of psychological as well as physical changes in employees. The present research tries to understand the impact of second lockdown due to covid-19 and the personality characteristics which contributed working from home as well the psychological wellbeing and general health among the working population.