Erro Garcés, AmayaIriarte Redin, Concha2025-02-202025-02-202024-11-25Erro-Garcés, A., Iriarte, C. (2024) Mental wellbeing and work-related quality of life across European workers: characteristics and associated factors. International Journal of Organizational Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-10-2023-4013.1934-883510.1108/IJOA-10-2023-4013https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/53520Purpose: Mental well-being of employees has decreased as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the data collected by Eurofound in the electronic survey 'Living, working and COVID-19' (2020), this paper aims to identify which aspects of the work-related quality of life and other sociodemographic variables can explain the mental well-being of workers in, especially, convulsive times like those experienced during COVID-19 and beyond. The main objective is to improve labor welfare in the future. Design/methodology/approach: With a sample of 8,777 observations (Round 2), cross-sectional analyses were conducted. Findings: The results indicated that all factors of work quality of life such as working conditions, work–family interface, job stress and job satisfaction were predictors of the mental well-being of workers. Likewise, being a woman, being of mature age, having a partner and having good training/education were variables also associated with mental well-being. Originality/value: The research revealed that the pandemic in Europe had a greater impact on the psychological well-being of women compared to men. Also, younger populations exhibited decreased levels of mental health.application/pdfengThis author accepted manuscript is deposited under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC) licence. This means that anyone may distribute, adapt, and build upon the work for non-commercial purposes, subject to full attribution. If you wish to use this manuscript for commercial purposes, please contact permissions@emerald.comMental well-beingJob satisfactionStressWork-related quality of lifeCovid-19Mental wellbeing and work-related quality of life across European workers: characteristics and associated factorsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article2025-02-20info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess