PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION TO WORKING FROM HOME
PSYCHOSOCIAL ADAPTATION TO WORKING FROM HOME

Summary/Abstract: In this study, the psychosocial adjustment to working from home was surveyed on samples of 201respondents from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 201 from Montenegro, 221 from North Macedonia, and 408 fromSerbia. The research was carried out using a questionnaire with 13 questions on the Psychosocial AdjustmentScale, specially created for this research. This research aims to describe the positive and negative aspects ofthe adjustment to working from home. Additionally, the research will examine the similarities and differencesamong respondents from four countries of the Western Balkans. The findings showed that the psychosocialadaptation of the respondents was positive, in general. However, respondents in all four countries highlightedthe lack of time for socializing with close friends. They also underlined the feeling of social isolation due toworking from home as the most difficult. The authors noticed that one of the reasons for the challenges ofenduring social isolation and loneliness is the more emphasized collectivist patterns of sociability in thecountries of the Western Balkans than in Western countries. Respondents from Montenegro show significantlyweaker psychosocial adaptation in several aspects compared to respondents from the other three countries. Inthis regard, the respondents from North Macedonia are similar to a certain extent, however, the respondentsfrom B &H and Serbia are the most similar to each other. The authors provided possible explanations for thesesimilarities and differences.

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