The impact of COVID-19 on hospitality employee's mental health. The moderating role of job location selection
基于压力与应对的交易理论，研究了新冠疫情对酒店员工心理健康的冲击，发现对新冠的痴迷会加剧焦虑，而工作地点选择能削弱这一影响，对酒店业应对全球健康危机有参考价值。
The aim of the current study is to explore the effects of COVID-19 on the mental health of the hospitality workforce, using the transactional theory of stress and coping. We examined how obsession with COVID-19 contributes to Coronavirus anxiety levels and posited that this link is moderated by job location selection. We tested models using data from 403 seasonal hospitality personnel who worked for two consecutive tourism periods in Greece. The results indicate that the levels of obsession and anxiety vary among occupations, with education decreasing, and the number of children increasing their levels. The moderated mediation analysis reveals that, in the proposed model, the selection of job location can weaken the direct effect of obsession to anxiety. The study provides practical implications for mitigating the mental health effects induced by global health crises, like the pandemic, for hospitality employees .