During the COVID-19 pandemic many countries enforced mandatory stay-at-home orders. The confinement period that took place may be regarded as a multi-domain work-life shock event, severely disrupting both the professional and the family sphere. Taking an identity lens, this study examines whether and how identity changed during confinment by drawing from a diary study consisting of 14 working parents who filled out a daily diary over a period of seven weeks of mandated home confinement in France. The findings suggest how both work-related and family-related identity change may occur when individuals are confronted with a multi-domain work-life shock event such as the pandemic. Further, the findings point to three identity responses to this event: work-life identity threat, work-life identity reflection, and work-life identity reconstruction. For most participants, the seven-week period resulted in significant and positive shifts in their work and family identities to better align with their internal beliefs rather than relying on societally imposed expectations about what it means to be a good parent and worker.

在 COVID-19 大流行期间，许多国家/地区强制执行了居家令。发生的坐月子可能被视为多领域的工作与生活冲击事件，严重扰乱了职业和家庭领域。以身份为视角，本研究通过对 14 位在职父母组成的日记研究进行调查，他们在法国强制居家禁闭七周的时间里每天填写日记，从而检验身份是否以及如何在禁闭期间发生变化。研究结果表明，当个人面临诸如大流行之类的多领域工作与生活冲击事件时，与工作相关和与家庭相关的身份变化可能如何发生。此外，研究结果指出了对这一事件的三种身份反应：工作-生活身份威胁、工作-生活身份反思和工作-生活身份重建。