Life Satisfaction Amongst Bank Employees: The Mediating Role of Work-Life Balance
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This research aims to study the factors affecting the work-life balance of bank employees and the life satisfaction of bank employees, and to examine the mediating roles of work-life balance in the relationship between six factors and life satisfaction. We operationalized the six factors in terms of workaholics, work stressors, consideration leadership, perceived team support, perceived family support, and welfare. Data were collected from 225 commercial bank employees. The online questionnaire was used to collect the data. Structural equation modeling was used to test all the study hypotheses. The results showed that workaholics was negatively related to work-life balance with a statistical significance level at 0.01. Consideration leadership and welfare were positively related to the work-life balance with a statistical significance level at 0.05 and 0.01, respectively. Perceived family support and welfare were positively related to the life satisfaction with a statistical significance level at 0.01 and 0.001, respectively. Furthermore, the results indicated that work-life balance mediated the relationship between workaholic and life satisfaction, consideration leadership and life satisfaction, and welfare and life satisfaction.
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