Title: Work-life balance is mediating and social fulfilment is moderating: the relationship between job satisfaction and life satisfaction among working people in developing countries

Authors: Ranganathan Venkatesan

Addresses: Department of Business Administration, Government Arts and Science College, Gingee, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract: The primary aim of the research is to find out the life satisfaction in working people of developing countries. The study is concentrated on how work-life balance is mediating between job satisfaction and life satisfaction and how social fulfilment moderately affects job satisfaction and life satisfaction. This study employed life satisfaction as a dependent variable. Independent variables are work-life balance, job satisfaction and social fulfilment. Social fulfilment is introducing variables and remaining variables from previous research. Data were collected at selected districts in the state of South Tamil Nadu, India through structured questionnaires. Sample size of present study is 447. JAMOVI (version 1.1.7) was used for analysing collected data. EFA and CFA analysis were done for find factor loading, reliability, sampling adequacy and model fit. Mediation and moderation analysis was made to find the significance of WLB and SF. Social fulfilment is moderately affected between job satisfaction and life satisfaction.

Keywords: life satisfaction; job satisfaction; work-life balance; WLB; social fulfilment; work-family conflict; WFC; family-work conflict; FWC.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2024.140336

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2024 Vol.32 No.4, pp.505 - 527

Received: 28 Oct 2022
Accepted: 14 Mar 2023
Published online: 03 Aug 2024 *

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