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This study aims to propose a model to study organizational routines as a generative system based on time and innovation. Routines are intrinsically related to resources orchestration processes, learning, know-how accumulation and organizational expertise. Over time, combined with innovations, in-process, or via technological artifacts, routines may contribute to diversifying the portfolio of outputs able to add value to a company result. The study follows a qualitative approach, with an applied nature, and was made through multiple case studies. Data collection was through semi-structured interviews and was beaconed by protocol subject to peers validation. The main contribution is the model which is proposed to understand routines as a generative system able to diversify the outputs or organizational actions enhancing the results arisen from innovations. Results have confirmed the relation between routines and resources orchestrations process, incorporation and development of innovations, and organizational learning.

The sports departments in local television news stations across the United States are transforming with the shifting contemporary trends implemented industry wide. Some departments are contracting, others are moving their content to web-only, while others are simply trying to sustain themselves in modern ways. The purpose of this study was to examine how current local sports television journalists addressed the changing marketplace and what impact the procedural and technological changes had on the stories they delivered. Researchers conducted 30 semistructured interviews with current sports media practitioners who worked in newsrooms throughout the United States. The findings of this study rendered four themes, which cumulatively suggest local sports media practitioners are facing varied engagements with job satisfaction and productivity based on their adaptability with shifting expectations. The themes were underscored by the influence of a move to digital first as an industry standard, while specifically examining how social media influences behavior and engagement. The study concludes that, while there are pervasive traditional constraints on journalists, there are also more recent challenges that created complexities in the exchange of information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social science risk studies often begin with one of two starting points: a particular risk, such as that of natural or technical disasters, or, alternately, with the individual experiencing risk. But risk may not be the guiding concept for how people act in the social world. This article explores how social practice theory broadens the possible starting points for social science risk research and in turn improve our understanding of risk. It does so by drawing on existing empirical studies within risk research that make use of practice-oriented theories and outline three essential arguments for practice-based risk research. First, that risk is understood as embedded in socially shared practices, second, that risk is routinised, and third, that risk is present in both social and material relations. Together, these arguments make out an analytical starting point of ‘practices of interest and intersecting practices’, representing a methodological situationalism, where actions rather than actors are at the core of research. In conclusion, a sensibility for practice in risk research is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: The introduction of new tools can bring unintended consequences for organizational routines. Cancer Patient Pathways (CPP) were introduced into the Swedish healthcare system in 2015 to shorten time to diagnosis and treatment. Primary healthcare (PHC) plays a central role since cancer diagnosis often begins in PHC units. Our study aimed to understand how PHC units adjusted organizational routines to utilizing CPPs.Method: Six PHC units of varied size from both urban and rural areas in northern Sweden were included. Grounded theory method was used to collect and analyse group interviews at each unit. Nine group interviews with nurses and physicians, for a total of 41 participants, were performed between March and November 2019. The interviews focused on CPPs as tools, the PHC units' routines and providers' experiences with using CPPs in their daily work.Results: Our analysis captured how PHC units adjusted organizational routines to utilizing CPPs by fusing existing practices with new practices to offer better quality of care. Specifically, three overarching organizational routines within the PHC units were identified. First, Manoeuvring diverse patient needs with easier patient flow, the PHC units handled the diverse needs of the population while simultaneously drawing upon CPPs to ease the patient flow within the healthcare system. Second, (Dis) integrating internal know-how, the PHC units drew upon internal competence even when PHC know-how was not taken into account by those driving the CPP initiative. Third, Coping with unequal relationships toward secondary care, the PHC units dealt with being in an unequal position while adopting CPPs instead further decreased possibilities to influence decision-making between care-levels.Conclusion: Adopting CPPs as a tool within PHC units brought various unintended consequences in organizational routines. Our study from northern Sweden illustrates that the PHC know-how needs to be integrated into the healthcare system to improve the use of new tools as CPP. Further, the relationships between different levels of care should be taken in account when introducing new tools for healthcare. Also, when adopting innovations, unintended consequences need to be further explored empirically in diverse healthcare contexts internationally in order to generate deeper knowledge in the research area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Somerset Levels and Moors comprise low-lying farmland in south-west England, prone to seasonal flooding. The area suffered uncommonly severe floods in 2012 and 2013/2014, triggering high-profile debates about the area's long-term future. The article focuses on the experiences of the floods in one village, Muchelney. Drawing on mixed methods, this interdisciplinary study examines physical and social routines, and how these were disrupted, adapted or reinforced. Indications of adaptability, resourcefulness and hierarchy emerge. The examination of routines draws on modest material representations sought out after the events took place, to illustrate how the floods submerged the landscape's physical geometry and disrupted mobility, but also presented new conduits. Within the trauma of isolation and inundation, prolonged media scrutiny revealed a range of gendered, hierarchical and uncomfortable social experiences that complement evidence of a resilient community pulling together and learning to cope among the upending of normal life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to find out relations of college student habbit on the physical education in sport activity with his body mass index. Physical activity are usually done by everyone, as well as college student at physical education. It is familiar. This study was conducted at a time, in 36 students who were all male sex with the age range of 20-24 years old. To known the result from the data will be processed, researchers used an instrument of the questionnaire. The questionnaire was immediately filled by each respondent without given any treatment previously. Category was obtained from the measurement of body mass index between height and weight each respondent. There is only one group in this research, no groups were compared. The method used is quantitative and data analysis using the technique chi square. The data obtained were then processed with SPSS 21 series. After data processed, the results show there is a significant correlation between both variables.

Self-tracking technology is considered a critical learning and motivational resource that at best helps people self-reflect, thereby promoting attempts to make changes to lifestyle routines. This study examines how people incorporate this technology into their daily practices and the routines that self-tracking technology produces. The study is based on an indepth empirical analysis of a sample of interviews of volunteer participants of a pilot study aiming to promote health and wellness. The interviews took place in two phases: first, after three months of self-tracking (in total 27 interviewees) and second, at the end of the pilot study after ten months of self-tracking (in total 21 interviewees). The analysis focused on the participants’ reflections on their user experiences of a self-tracking device, the data that this produced and the resulting routines. The results suggest that people’s self-tracking routines are often related to the maintenance of a visible and continuous data flow in self-tracking applications. Routines for wearing, tending to and communicating with self-tracking devices play an important role. These routines are either only remotely related or not necessarily at all related to making changes to lifestyle routines that affect health and wellness. The development of routines through novel artefacts involve much invisible work and can even lead to unintended consequences. During self-tracking, the focus may remain on the technology alone and on attempts to develop routines for maintaining a continuous, accurate flow of data, rather than on actually making lifestyle changes.

Dynamic Capabilities are predominantly conceptualised as being based on routine, stable patterns of behaviour. This is paradoxical with their intended purpose to elicit change in firms’ resource base and operational capabilities that allows them to face highly dynamic environments. I contribute to resolve this paradox by bringing the concept of duality to the Dynamic Capabilities debate. In particular, I argue that the view of Dynamic Capabilities as routines stems from the misconception that reliable outcomes can be attained only through stable mechanisms. Drawing on the literature on routine dynamics and on improvisation, as well as the empirical evidence of previous research, I propose a duality model that conceives Dynamic Capabilities as based both on routines and on improvisation. This duality perspective highlights the interdependence and complementarity between predictable stable routines and extemporaneous improvised actions that are both necessary to reliably achieve the (often radical) change needed to compete in highly dynamic environments. Rather than dealing with stable routines and improvisation as a trade-off, organisations must dynamically strive for the right balance, managing them concurrently and synergistically.

The department of Boyacá accounts for only 0.93% of national exports, which means that the participation of exporting companies in the region is low. One of the most important factors within these organizations is the knowledge of the collaborators, since it is an asset that contributes to the daily activities carried out within an organization. Hence, the objective of this research was to analyze the incidence of the forgotten factors in knowledge management through the conversion of knowledge and the routines of the personnel in Boyacá’s exporting companies, by means of causal analysis using fuzzy methodologies. The participants are exporting activity collaborators in the companies, who were consulted as sources of information for the Boyacá chamber of commerce. For the treatment, the forgotten effects theory, the experton method, and the adequacy coefficient are used. The information collected is processed using FuzzyLog software. The findings highlight that there are forgotten factors between the knowledge conversion and routines related to informal communication and social interactions. It is worth noting that it is important to carry out a more in-depth analysis of each of the individual knowledge spiral pillars in exporting companies in different regions of the country, focusing on social interactions (linguistic expression) and informal communication (electronic meetings).

We examine how organizations select some routines to be changed, but not others, during organizational search. Selection is a critical step that links an exogenous trigger for change, change in individual routines, and larger processes of organizational adaptation. Drawing on participant observation of an initiative to improve perioperative efficiency in seven Ontario hospitals, we find that organizational roles shape selection by influencing both politics and frames in organizational search. Roles shape politics by defining the role-specific goals of the people who have authority to change a routine. Organizations will not select a routine for change unless at least some elites—people with role-based authority—frame the existing routine as negatively affecting their role-specific goals. Roles also shape individuals’ frames. Because people are only partially exposed to interdependencies between routines in their day-to-day work, they may not be fully aware of the diverse impact that an existing routine can have on their goals. Proponents for change can use strategic framing to focus attention on interdependencies between routines to get elites to better see how an existing routine negatively affects their goals. They can also change elites’ goals by using strategic framing to focus attention on new and broader goals that the change in routine would promote. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The beam is a balanced apparatus and one of the most difficult in women s gymnastics. In many cases, the women s gymnastics competition, regardless of its rank, is decided by this apparatus. The aim of the present study is to follow the compositional structure of the beam routines of the eight finalists of the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Subject of the research is the combinations of the finalists of beam. The methods of video surveillance and recording of the combinations of beam are applied. The results were processed using variation analysis. The analysis of the routines of the eight finalists of the beam shows that the competitors included in their combinations an average of 16,125 exercises. The largest number are the exercises with high difficulty from group "D" – an average of 5 pieces, having priority acrobatics elements. From the analysis of the results for the compositional structure, it is clear that in all the competitors there are multi-peak graphs composed of exercises with high difficulty. Regarding the value of the connections, the highest sum of 1.2 points is observed in the champion of the beam - G. C. (CHN), with an average for the analysis - 0.6125 points. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no common research approach into how home economics educators teach cookery and food safety. A qualitative observation study of six teachers giving cookery classes to 14-year-old students shows how teachers make more or less conscious didactic choices about subject content. These different choices give the content different meanings. Teachers can create a foundation for formative education (bildung) when they enable students to routinize their own choreography, and conceptualise and reflect, when cooking collaboratively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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With more than two thirds of Olga Grjasnowa's Gott ist nicht schüchtern set in present-day Syria, the novel's main objective is to convey to its readers a sense of the Syrian Civil War and its effects on individual lives. Grjasnowa goes to great lengths to describe the early days of the uprising, the atrocities committed by the Assad regime, and the slow but definite destruction and ultimate uninhabitability of the Syrian nation state. But the text also reveals the importance of coping mechanisms and strategies for survival and resistance. By foregrounding the quotidian spaces of everyday life and the often banal routines for navigating war and destruction, this article interrogates to what extent life under extreme conditions is still conceivable and explores what kinds of insights the depiction of war opens up for envisioning a more hospitable environment for newcomers in the host country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adoption of certain behavioral and social routines that organize and structure the home environment may help families navigate the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. The current cross-sectional study aimed to assess family routines prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic and examine associations with individual and family well-being. Using a national sample, 300 caregivers of children ages 6-18 were surveyed using Amazon Mechanical Turk platform during the first three months of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Caregivers reported on family demographics, COVID-19-related stress, engagement in family routines (prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic), stress mindset, self-efficacy, and family resiliency. Overall, families reported engaging in fewer routines during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to prior to the pandemic. COVID-19-related stress was highest in low-income families, families of healthcare workers, and among caregivers who had experienced the COVID-19 virus. Moreover, COVID-19-related stress was negatively related to self-efficacy, positively related to an enhancing stress mindset, and negatively related to family resilience. Engagement in family routines buffered relations between COVID-19-related stress and family resilience, such that COVID-19-related stress was not associated with lower family resilience among families that engaged in high levels of family routines. Results suggest that family routines were challenging to maintain in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, but were associated with better individual and family well-being during this period of acute health, economic, and social stress. Highlights: Families reported engaging in fewer routines during the COVID-19 pandemic, when compared to prior to the pandemic. Families reported significant reductions in child bedtime routines and screen time limitations during the COVID-19 pandemic, when compared to prior to the pandemic. Engagement in family routines buffered the impact of stress on family resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The organizational behavior literature refers to persistent interaction patterns among members of an organization with distributed knowledge as organizational routines. To formalize this concept, as well as intuitions about organizational routines, we investigate dynamic coordination within a problem-solving team where team members cannot communicate. Each team member has a finite number of actions. There is a single action profile with a positive payoff. The task is to identify that profile through repeated trials. For each of their actions, team members have private information regarding their confidence in that action being required for a solution. In this environment, we refer to deterministic sequences of action profiles, where actions are labeled according to their confidence ranking, as organizational routines. We show that there are equilibria that give rise to organizational routines. These organizational routine equilibria partially solve the team's coordination problem by synchronizing the team's search efforts. These organizational routine equilibria are resilient to changes in the environment by being ex post equilibria, to agents having only a coarse understanding of other agents' strategies by being fully cursed, and to natural forms of agents' overconfidence. If the distribution over team members' confidences is sufficiently dispersed, this resilience of organizational routine equilibria comes at the price of suboptimality. In contrast, generically, when this distribution is sufficiently concentrated, optimal equilibria induce organizational routines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A family's health is sustained by its occupational patterns. While it is commonly accepted that a health condition places extra demands on a family's time or can limit daily occupations, few studies have reported on the occupational patterns of these families. This scoping review provides an overview of the current state of research exploring occupational patterns of families living with a health condition. Publications between 2000 and 2018 indexed in CINAHL, PsycInfo, Medline and Scopus databases were searched. Seventy-seven studies were included in the final content analysis. Findings suggest that families' occupational patterns are more complex than simply the sum of individual and shared occupational patterns, but consist of interconnected relational aspects of occupations, rarely highlighted in studies. Moreover, testimonies tend to be predominantly from the mother's perspectives, thereby limiting the scope of understanding of the interdependent nature of families' occupational patterns. To better understand the complexity and interdependence of families' occupational patterns, future studies should examine multiple perspectives (parents and children) when studying occupations in a family setting. This can be enabled by the use of a variety of data collection methodologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Part C early intervention services should be family centered and occur in the context of families' natural environments and daily routines; yet research suggests that many early interventionists continue to work directly with the child and lack a full understanding of how they can implement best practices in the community. To help improve this implementation gap, discrepancy tools can be used to identify early interventionists' perspectives of their typical and ideal practices and gain knowledge of early interventionists' understanding of family-centered practices. The purpose of this study was to examine early interventionists' typical practices, ideal practices, and family consultation beliefs prior to one state's adoption of a family-centered early intervention model. Ninety-nine early interventionists completed a questionnaire examining their practices and beliefs. Results demonstrated that ratings of typical practices, ideal practices, and family consultation beliefs were relatively high overall, and early interventionists rated their typical practices only slightly lower than ideal practices. Item-level analysis, however, revealed a large discrepancy be- tween typical and ideal ratings for the item related to working with the child versus the caregiver. Implications of our findings and recommended future directions are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The family practices approach, as insightfully conceptualized by David Morgan, emphasizes activities, routine, and daily life, while recognizing the fluid, complex and open to change nature of the concept of family and its multiple connections with different arenas and dimensions of social life. Inspired by such a theoretical perspective, this article focuses on an apparently unimportant but regular activity in the daily lives of many families and individuals. Building on the concept of the everyday and family practices, it advances on what the scientific literature points to as the «grey zone of grocery shopping», pre-ordered and mutually exclusive spheres and (old) boundaries between family, work, and consumption. Empirically, the essay turns to data collected through 30 episodic interviews carried out in Portugal with parents of children 3-14 years old. Data were explored through a qualitative content analysis making use of software NVivo. The work attests to the richness, plasticity, and timeliness of Morgan's work to understand established debates in family studies, while opening space for future research on the multiple and overlapping connections between family and time, space, gender, and consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As global donors shift their efforts from infectious diseases to non-communicable diseases (NCD), it is critical to capitalize on our prior mistakes and successes. Policy makers and public health administrators are often looking for magic bullets: drugs or treatments to eradicate disease. Yet, each potential magic bullet requires consistent, daily implementation and adherence to a new set of habits to actually work. Families' and communities' daily, interlocking routines will be the battlefield on which scientific and technological breakthroughs will be implemented and succeed or not. Currently, there are many evidence-based interventions (EBI) which have been demonstrated to shift specific habits which account for most NCD (eating, drinking, moving, and smoking). Yet, securing sustained uptake of these programs is rare - suggesting different intervention strategies are needed. Structural changes, policy nudges, and partnerships with private enterprise may be able to shift the health behaviors of more citizens faster and at a lower cost than existing EBI. Addressing concurrent risk and protective factors at the community level and intervening to shape new cultural routines may be useful to reduce NCD.

This article identifies the routines and working practices of women journalists from Colombia and Venezuela in the framework of the health emergency caused by covid-19 in the countries where they work. It is a quantitative research at a descriptive cross-sectional level in which an instrument made up of 26 questions organized into five categories of analysis was used. Categories include family–work relationship, working life, and health and well-being, and the questionnaire was applied to 110 professionals from Colombia and Venezuela. It was found that the compulsory confinement hastened the insertion of journalists in the use of information and communication technologies, applications, and software for content production. Although they were already working in digital media, they had to develop new skills in this field. For 47% of them, their working hours were extended for more than 3 hours a day, which for 79% represents family tensions, given that 38% have underage children or older adults under their care. However, during the confinement, their participation in the formation of public opinion was also expanded through their personal social networks, incorporating corruption issues and citizen complaints. Regarding their routines, it is concluded that the pandemic transformed access to information sources, newsrooms, and, therefore, the dynamics of news production, so we are faced with a new way of doing journalism that puts reporting and ethics into tension with information and communication technologies.

Objective: A new diagnosis of pediatric cancer may disrupt family functioning. The current study aimed to describe changes in family rules and routines during the first year of pediatric cancer treatment, and to explore associations with demographics, illness factors, and caregiver distress. Methods: This exploratory mixed‐methods, cross‐sectional study examined 44 primary caregivers of youth in treatment for a new cancer diagnosis in 2019 and 2020, before the onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Caregivers completed validated questionnaires assessing demographic and child illness characteristics, psychosocial distress, and cancer‐related stressors, and participated in a semi‐structured interview about family rules and routines. Results: Caregivers reported changes in bedtime, mealtime, and school routines, relaxed behavioral expectations and rules around screen time, and new rules and routines around treatment, medications, and infection control. Caregivers with elevated levels of psychosocial distress reported more changed routines than caregivers with low levels of psychosocial distress. Caregivers who endorsed more cancer‐related stressors reported more new rules and routines than those who reported fewer cancer‐related stressors. Demographic and illness factors were not significantly associated with the number of changed, new, or stable family rules and routines. Conclusions: Families may relax rules and routines during the first several months of diagnosis, and this may be related to side effects of treatment and limited caregiver capacity. The long‐term impact of changes in family rules and routines during cancer treatment warrants further study given that accommodating parenting strategies have been associated with adverse short‐ and long‐term child health and behavior outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to propose a model to study organizational routines as a generative system based on time and innovation. Routines are intrinsically related to resources orchestration processes, learning, know-how accumulation and organizational expertise. Over time, combined with innovations, inprocess, or via technological artifacts, routines may contribute to diversifying the portfolio of outputs able to add value to a company result. The study follows a qualitative approach, with an applied nature, and was made through multiple case studies. Data collection was through semi-structured interviews and was beaconed by protocol subject to peers validation. The main contribution is the model which is proposed to understand routines as a generative system able to diversify the outputs or organizational actions enhancing the results arisen from innovations. Results have confirmed the relation between routines and resources orchestrations process, incorporation and development of innovations, and organizational learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mathematical reasoning has an important place in many primary and secondary curricula around the world. In the particular case of Quebec, it is a competency that has had a prescribed assessment framework for nearly 20 years. However, little is known about teachers' understanding of mathematical reasoning or the practices they use to foster its development in the classroom—both in Quebec and elsewhere. In this article, we analyze the discourse of teachers in order to examine how they conceptualize mathematical reasoning and what practices they believe are critical for its development. The Mathematical Discourse for Teaching framework (Cooper 2015) helps to characterize these practices. Results from our study pinpoint key words, shared and hoped-for routines, narratives that are generally endorsed by the community as well as commognitive conflicts. Specifically, mathematical reasoning is associated either with a competency to be assessed or, more broadly, with a process of understanding. These two manners of conceptualizing mathematical reasoning lead to different routines, but also to a tension between the desire to help students make sense of mathematics and the requirement to test competency based on a specific rubric. These findings appear to be linked to the fact that the Mathematical Discourse for Teaching (MDT) of primary teachers is based on multiple discourses that do not necessarily share the same founding principles or metadiscursive rules, which leads to inherent commognitive conflicts for teachers in this community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although it is considered that the independence of a child during adolescence is a crucial moment, it is very important to, in addition to the newly acquired individuality, preserve cohesiveness as a feature of a healthy family atmosphere. Cohesiveness is also one of the two main dimensions of patterns of family functioning. In observing a healthy atmosphere, we started from the assumption that family gathering routines and rituals play a significant role. This research was guided by a systemic approach to understanding the meaning and significance of family gathering routines and rituals. The aim of the research was to examine family gatherings and the functionality of the contemporary family with adolescents and to determine their relationship. The Family Cohesiveness and Adaptability Evaluation Scale, FACES IV (Olson, Gorall and Tiesel, 2006), as well as The Family Gathering Routines and Rituals Questionnaire, FGRRQ specifically designed for the purposes of this research were used as instruments. The research included 204 respondents - high school students and university students. The results showed that families with adolescents in Serbia are characterized by balanced patterns of family functioning, but gatherings are not largely present. Family gatherings are statistically significantly associated with balanced patterns of family functioning. A slightly weaker connection with patterns of family rigidity and enmeshment was also found. A negative association between family gatherings and patterns of disengagement and chaos indicates the importance of gatherings for family functionality. The correlations show that family gatherings contribute to a sense of connection, because in families where gatherings are not present sufficiently patterns of disengagement are more prominent, indicating a lack of togetherness, which is problematic for the educational function of the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on the notion of generative mechanisms as constitutive rules, this paper advocates a shift away from the notion of routines as sources of ongoing change and towards a rule‐based understanding of routines as institutional facts. While the recent practice turn to routines studies has highlighted sources of endogenous change, this paper adopts a Critical Realist stance to investigate exogenous forces that account for the emergence of a new routine. To this end, the paper endeavours to analyse the passing of new legislation in the criminal justice system of England and Wales. By examining what makes the rules of the game change between the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service, the paper explains an instance of institutionalisation in the making. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Our contribution stresses that constitutive rules play a pivotal role for recognising, identifying and labelling organisational routines, thus generating order, stability and patterning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study sought to understand how journalists' gatekeeping role, routines, and practices of communication work have been impacted by police use of social media such as Facebook. Semi-structured topical interviews were conducted with eleven broadcast newsroom staff. Overall, findings suggest that police use of Facebook has made newsroom routines easier in many cases, but it is also leading journalists away from gatekeeping and towards passivity and curation. In addition, findings suggest social media use by official sources is shifting gatekeeping power from journalists to police as departments are now able to gatecrash and circumvent the press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 pandemic has altered women's mental health as a consequence of the global threat and the lockdown measures adopted by public health policies. It has been suggested that women are at a higher risk for mood alterations, but most of the studies are cross-sectional or have only considered the first days of the confinement in their longitudinal designs. The present study was aimed at evaluating temporal changes in anxiety and depression in a general sample of 155 non-infected adult Spanish women after a complete quarantine. It also explored the predictive role of personality, the establishment of new routines and physical activity during lockdown in a pre-post design assessing temporal and clinical mood changes after 5 weeks of lockdown. Logistic regression analyses showed that higher neuroticism and depressive levels at baseline, lower routines engagement, and lower physical activity during lockdown predicted depression caseness, whereas anxiety caseness was best predicted by higher neuroticism, more days of lockdown and greater anxiety symptoms at baseline. It is concluded that lockdown duration, increased neuroticism and baseline levels of anxiety and depression are risk factors for women's mental health, while routines and physical activity emerge as protective factors for managing psychological wellbeing during the pandemic lockdowns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]