STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING RESILIENCE TO REDUCE WORKPLACE LONELINESS
Keywords:
workplace loneliness, resilience, social support, mindfulness, geospatial psychologyAbstract
Workplace loneliness reflects a negative feeling that arises when social relationships at work fail to meet employees’ emotional needs, which affect both their mental and physical health. Workplace loneliness can hinder organizational development because it has a significant impact on employee well-being and performance. One factor that can reduce employees’ loneliness in the workplace is resilience. The higher the level of resilience an individual possesses, the lower the level of workplace loneliness they experience. Social support from coworkers and mindfulness can be considered as effective strategies for enhancing resilience as a means of addressing workplace loneliness. Social support functions as an external (environmental) factor that enhances resilience, whereas mindfulness serves as an internal (individual) factor. Enhancing the effectiveness of social support can be focused on interventions that emphasize support from coworkers. Moreover, the development of mindfulness-based interventions may consider integration with the concept of Geospatial Psychology to help identify environments that are conducive to mindfulness practice. Both social support-based and mindfulness-based interventions can be combined to enhance employee resilience in reducing workplace loneliness.
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