The role of mindfulness and corona disease anxiety in predicting the quality of professional life of employed women

The aim of the present study was to identify the role of mindfulness and corona disease anxiety in predicting the quality of professional life of employed women. The present study is a descriptive correlational study in terms of method. The research population included all employed women, referred to Abhar health centers in the last quarter of 2020, from which 156 people were selected as a sample using a convenience sampling method. The instruments of this study included the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL)(Stam, 2010), the Five-Factor Mindfulness Scale (FFMQ)(Bauer et al., 2006), and the Corona Disease Anxiety Scale(CDAS)(Alipour et al., 2019). The collected data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation test and simultaneous regression analysis in SPSS-25 software. Results revealed a significant positive relationship between mindfulness and quality of professional life and a significant negative relationship between corona disease anxiety and quality of professional life (P<0.01). The results also showed that Forty percent of the variance in the professional quality of life can be predicted based on the mindfulness and corona disease anxiety, and Both the mindfulness and corona disease anxiety predict the professional quality of life of working women.  Based on the research results, it can be one of the main priorities of managers, especially welfare organizations in crisis interventions and adopting appropriate strategies such as training of mindfulness skills to reduce anxiety in the workplace and improve the quality of life of employees to promote professional quality of life so that conditions to improve quality of services to be provided.