Purpose

Work–family conflict plays a vital role in employees’ work-related satisfaction and emotional exhaustion measures. Yet, the theoretical interrelationship between work–family conflict, emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction has not been fully explored in the construction literature. Hence, this study aims to assess emotional exhaustion’s mediating role in the relationship between work–family conflict and job satisfaction of the construction professionals.

Design/methodology/approach

Data were gathered from a cross-sectional survey of 308 project-level construction professionals in Sri Lanka. A confirmatory factor analysis followed by three structural equation models was used in analyzing the research hypotheses.

Findings

The results support the mediation model of emotional exhaustion, in which the emotional exhaustion fully mediated the relationship between work–family conflict and job satisfaction. Hence, the authors concluded that a higher level of work–family conflict would directly contribute to a greater degree of emotional exhaustion, which in turn lessens the job satisfaction of the project employees.

Originality/value

In identifying how work–family conflict, emotional exhaustion and job satisfaction are linked together, the present study added the mediating role of emotional exhaustion to the previous empirical research on the relationship between work–family conflict and job satisfaction in the context of the construction industry.

中文翻译：

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建筑专业人士的工作家庭冲突与工作满意度：情绪耗竭的中介作用

目的

工作-家庭冲突在员工与工作相关的满意度和情绪耗竭测量中起着至关重要的作用。然而，工作-家庭冲突、情绪耗竭和工作满意度之间的理论相互关系尚未在建筑文献中得到充分探讨。因此，本研究旨在评估情绪耗竭在建筑专业人员工作-家庭冲突与工作满意度之间的关系中的中介作用。

设计/方法/方法

数据来自对斯里兰卡 308 名项目级建筑专业人士的横断面调查。在分析研究假设时使用了验证性因素分析和三个结构方程模型。

发现

结果支持情绪耗竭的中介模型，其中情绪耗竭充分中介了工作家庭冲突与工作满意度之间的关系。因此，作者得出结论，更高程度的工作-家庭冲突会直接导致更大程度的情绪耗竭，从而降低项目员工的工作满意度。

原创性/价值

在确定工作-家庭冲突、情绪耗竭和工作满意度如何联系在一起时，本研究将情绪耗竭的中介作用添加到先前建筑业背景下工作-家庭冲突与工作满意度之间关系的实证研究中。 .