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

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 tendenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Orkibi, Hod, Brandt, Yaron Ilan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PsychOpen 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4873052/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27247666
http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v11i3.869
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Sumario: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.