The influece of family support, flexible working hours and hardiness on work-life balance of China working women

The aims of the present study was to investigatethe effect of family support, flexible working hours and hardiness characteristic on work-life balance of China working women. The study also aims to examine the moderating role of hardiness characteristic in the relationship between family support and...

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Main Author: Zhao Xiaocen
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2018
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Summary:The aims of the present study was to investigatethe effect of family support, flexible working hours and hardiness characteristic on work-life balance of China working women. The study also aims to examine the moderating role of hardiness characteristic in the relationship between family support and work-life balance and in the relationship between flexible working hours and work-life balance of China Working women.A total of 395 working women in Hebei province, China were involved in this study. The instruments used in this study composed of: Measure of the Work-Life Balance; Measure of the Flexible Working Hour; Family Support Inventory; and Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15).The findings revealed that a) family support variables (emotional sustenance and instrumental assistance) had a positive and significant influence on work-life balance among China working women. Staff motivational level also was a significant and positive predictor forwork-life balance of China working women. However, the result showed a non-significant effect of flexible working hours on work-life balance of China working women. The finding for the direction of the correlation between hardiness and work-life balance also as expected. Lastly, the findings revealed that hardiness characteristic was not a moderator in all the relationship between all the independent variables in this study and work-life balance.