The effect of COVID fatigue on mental health in the public sector organizations: exploring compassion as a mediator

Abstract

The results from a survey of 307 white-collar employees from public sector organizations in India confirmed the mediating role of compassion on mental health. The results state that a unit change in the dependent variables of COVID fatigue, corona anxiety, and social support can have an impact of 9.7% on the mental health quotient. The workplaces on the one hand are battling with emergent change in work practices and the employees with stress and mental health concerns (Brosschot et al. 2005; Shigemura et al. 2020; Kniffin et al. 2021). The variables such as COVID fatigue, corona anxiety, social support, mental health, and compassion have been chosen after an extensive literature review to understand crisis management in organizations.