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Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The current COVID-19 pandemic has evolved to unprecedented proportions. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ship employees stuck at sea. Using an inductive qualitative approach, a synchronous online focus group was conduc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32947859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186741 |
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author | Radic, Aleksandar Lück, Michael Ariza-Montes, Antonio Han, Heesup |
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description | The current COVID-19 pandemic has evolved to unprecedented proportions. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ship employees stuck at sea. Using an inductive qualitative approach, a synchronous online focus group was conducted with nine cruise ship employees who were stuck at sea during COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed that COVID-19 pandemic has managed to erase the feeling of joy from cruise ship employees who were stuck at sea while exposing weakness of cruise line companies such as poor human resource management leadership. Moreover, COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that it is of paramount importance that cruise line companies create a comprehensive strategy in assisting their employees who are experiencing an anxiety disorder and depression. The managerial implications are outlined. |
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spelling | pubmed-75594412020-10-26 Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Radic, Aleksandar Lück, Michael Ariza-Montes, Antonio Han, Heesup Int J Environ Res Public Health Article The current COVID-19 pandemic has evolved to unprecedented proportions. This research aimed to gain a deeper understanding of the psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ship employees stuck at sea. Using an inductive qualitative approach, a synchronous online focus group was conducted with nine cruise ship employees who were stuck at sea during COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed that COVID-19 pandemic has managed to erase the feeling of joy from cruise ship employees who were stuck at sea while exposing weakness of cruise line companies such as poor human resource management leadership. Moreover, COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that it is of paramount importance that cruise line companies create a comprehensive strategy in assisting their employees who are experiencing an anxiety disorder and depression. The managerial implications are outlined. MDPI 2020-09-16 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7559441/ /pubmed/32947859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186741 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Radic, Aleksandar Lück, Michael Ariza-Montes, Antonio Han, Heesup Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Fear and Trembling of Cruise Ship Employees: Psychological Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | fear and trembling of cruise ship employees: psychological effects of the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32947859 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186741 |
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