School of Business, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 92373, USA.
School of Management, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500046, India.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 15;17(14):5096. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17145096.
The mediating roles of work-family balance, job satisfaction and family satisfaction in work-family dynamics research has not been explored fully to delineate their probable intervening effects. Using spillover theory as the basis, the current study tests a model to identify the role of these factors in work-family conflict (and work-role ambiguity), career satisfaction and perception of life success. Responses obtained through an online survey from a final sample of 344 academic faculty, across different educational institutions in India, tend to suggest that work-family balance mediated work-family conflict and its potential influence on life success as well as career satisfaction, and also the relationship between work-role ambiguity and both life success and career satisfaction. While job satisfaction also showed similar results except for non-significant mediation between work-role ambiguity and life success, family satisfaction mediated only between work role ambiguity and life success. The importance of job satisfaction and work-family balance is highlighted in the context of reducing the negative impact of work-family conflict and work-role ambiguity on one's career and life satisfaction. Results and their practical and theoretical implications, and future directions of research to further our understanding of work-family dynamics, etc., are discussed.
工作-家庭平衡、工作满意度和家庭满意度在工作-家庭动态研究中的中介作用尚未得到充分探讨，无法明确它们可能存在的干预效果。本研究以溢出理论为基础，测试了一个模型，以确定这些因素在工作-家庭冲突（和工作角色模糊性）、职业满意度和对生活成功的感知中的作用。通过对来自印度不同教育机构的 344 名学术教师的最终样本进行在线调查，得出的回复表明，工作-家庭平衡在工作-家庭冲突及其对生活成功和职业满意度的潜在影响、工作角色模糊性与生活成功和职业满意度之间，起到了中介作用。虽然工作满意度也显示出类似的结果，但工作角色模糊性与生活成功之间的中介作用不显著，家庭满意度仅在工作角色模糊性与生活成功之间起中介作用。工作满意度和工作-家庭平衡的重要性在减轻工作-家庭冲突和工作角色模糊性对个人职业和生活满意度的负面影响方面得到了强调。讨论了研究结果及其实际和理论意义，以及进一步研究工作-家庭动态等方面的未来方向。
