title: How Positivity Links With Job Satisfaction: Preliminary Findings on the Mediating Role of Work-Life Balance.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Hod
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Orkibi
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
authors.forename: Yaron Ilan
authors.initials: YI
authors.lastname: Brandt
keywords: job satisfaction; positive psychology; positivity; work-life balance