Volume 06 Issue 09 September 2023
1Dr. Seyed Mohammad Reza Rashidi Al Hashem, 2Mehro Mohammad Sadeghi
1Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Officer Training and Guard Training, Imam Hossein, peace be upon him,
2Graduated with a master's degree in social science research.
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i9-05Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic caused problems at various levels. One of its consequences is public health problems at the community level, as well as being affected by people's job performance due to the quarantine conditions and the resulting stress. This study intends to investigate the effect of mass panic caused by covid-19 on the job performance of Ministry of Health employees. The present research is a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted in 2019 in Tehran. In this study, 250 employees working in the Ministry of Health participated. Data collection tools were two demographic questionnaires and Patterson's job performance.The samples completed the questionnaires electronically on the Google Form platform. SPSS version 22 software was used for data analysis. The significance level of the data was 0.05. In total, 250 questionnaires were completed. The average age of the samples was 44.11±23.74 and their average work experience was 16.07±8.66. The findings of this study showed that collective panic caused by covid-19 had a significant effect on the indicators of social functioning. Also, based on the findings, fear caused by Corona had a negative effect on people's job performance. The variables of diploma and post-diploma education had an inverse effect on job performance in these people. It seems that due to the limited number of studies on the effect of panic caused by Corona on the social function and job performance of people in occupational groups other than the Corona treatment staff, there is a need for more investigations in this Field.
KEYWORDSfear of corona, job performance, social crisis.
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