Well-Being of High-Level Managers during the Pandemic: The Role of Fear of Negative Appearance, Anxiety, and Eating Behaviors

Anna Hryniewicz, Dominika Wilczyńska, Daniel Krokosz (), Konrad Hryniewicz and Mariusz Lipowski
Additional contact information
Anna Hryniewicz: Faculty of Physical Education, Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport, 80-336 Gdansk, Poland
Dominika Wilczyńska: Faculty of Physical Education, Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport, 80-336 Gdansk, Poland
Daniel Krokosz: Faculty of Physical Education, Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport, 80-336 Gdansk, Poland
Konrad Hryniewicz: Department of Marketing and Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Management and Quality Science, Gdynia Maritime University, 81-225 Gdynia, Poland
Mariusz Lipowski: Faculty of Physical Education, Gdańsk University of Physical Education and Sport, 80-336 Gdansk, Poland

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: (1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented changes in the contemporary world, significantly affecting the work of companies, especially management staff. This study investigated whether fear about one’s health (caused by the pandemic, disordered eating attitudes, or concerns about one’s body image) has a negative relationship with the well-being of managers. (2) Methods: N = 354 managers (222 women, 126 men, and 6 people with no gender identity) participated in the study. The following psychometric instruments were used: the psychological well-being scale, the coronavirus anxiety scale, the fear of negative appearance evaluation scale, and the eating attitude test-26. Results: the fear of negative appearance influenced the well-being of the studied managers. However, this relation was mediated by dieting as well as bulimia and food preoccupation. (4) Conclusions: the well-being level depended on the managers’ positive body images, but only when mediated by healthy dieting and eating attitudes. While the well-being level of managers was high, it is worth further exploring how they can flourish and develop in life and work, which can also transfer to the quality of life of their co-workers and companies. However, the subject of the well-being of managers warrants more research; for example, by considering different moderators, such as job experience, gender, and age. Moreover, experimental studies examining the effectiveness of different interventions for the physical and mental health of managers could be worth investigating.

Keywords: well-being; managers; eating attitudes; body image; COVID-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/637/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/637/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2022:i:1:p:637-:d:1019793

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().