Work-Family Conflict Mediates the Association Between Job Demands and Life and Job Satisfaction in Chinese Middle-Level Managers

摘要

The present study examined the mediating effect of work-family conflict on the relationships between job demands, life satisfaction and job satisfaction, and the moderating effect of psychological capital on the relationship between job demands and work-family conflict in the Chinese context. Two hundred and fifty middle-level managers from Chinese state-owned enterprises were recruited to complete a battery of self-report measures of work demands, work-family conflict, psychological capital, life satisfaction and job satisfaction. The results indicated that the effects of job demands on life and job satisfaction were fully mediated by work-family conflict. However, psychological capital did not moderate the relationship between job demands and work-family conflict. The implications of the results were discussed.