Essential Workers Balancing Life and Work during the COVID-19 Syndemic in Spain: A Qualitative and Gender-Based Study

Table 3

Categories and subcategories of analysis.

Categories	Subcategories
Psychosocial impact according to different living and health conditions	(i) Housing impact
	(ii) Emotional impact
	(iii) Social impact
Challenges of work-life balance	(i) Coping with confinement
	(ii) Relationship with partners and cohabitants
	(iii) Distribution of reproductive work responsibilities
	(iv) Self-care
Productive work as a way out	(i) Going outside–working conditions and work-life balance
	(ii) Work relationships
	(iii) Risk perception and experiences COVID-19
Social recognition was not equitable	(i) Social recognition and visibility at work
	(ii) Discrimination
Discursive position on the syndemic’s management	(i) Role of institutions (government and media) in work-life balance
	(ii) Social and future concerns