%0 Journal Article
%T How Positivity Links With Job Satisfaction: Preliminary Findings on the Mediating Role of Work-Life Balance
%A Hod Orkibi
%A Yaron Ilan Brandt
%J -
%D 2015
%R 10.5964/ejop.v11i3.869
%X 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
%K [work-life balance
%K positive psychology
%K job satisfaction
%K positivity]
%U https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/869