How Positivity Links With Job Satisfaction: Preliminary Findings on the Mediating Role of Work-Life Balance

Abstract: The positive characteristics that can help people juggle their work and personal roles and experience greater job satisfaction are attracting increased research attention. This study presents a conceptual model to account for the association between employees’ positive orientation (i.e., the tendency to evaluate self, life, and the future in a positive way) and their job satisfaction (N = 108). As theorized, the results indicate that employees’ ability to manage their work-life balance fully mediates the relation between their positive orientation and job satisfaction. This suggests that a positive orientation serves as an adaptive personal resource that can facilitate employees’ ability to balance work and non-work demands and hence can foster job satisfaction. The practical implications for positive psychological interventions in organizational settings are discussed. https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/869

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: How Positivity Links With Job Satisfaction: Preliminary Findings on the Mediating Role of Work-Life Balance ; volume:11 ; number:3 ; day:20 ; month:08 ; year:2015 ; Europe's journal of psychology ; 11, Heft 3 (20.08.2015)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hod Orkibi ; Yaron Ilan Brandt

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v11i3.869
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101417330624821191
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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