International Journal of
Educational Administration and Policy Studies

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Educ. Admin. Pol. Stud.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6656
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJEAPS
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 243

Full Length Research Paper

The impact of work-family conflict on work engagement of female university teachers in China: JD-R perspective

Qiaolan Su
  • Qiaolan Su
  • Chinese International College, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Man Jiang
  • Man Jiang
  • Chinese International College, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand.
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  •  Received: 14 March 2023
  •  Accepted: 20 April 2023
  •  Published: 30 April 2023

Abstract

This paper takes work-family conflict as the independent variable, work engagement as the dependent variable, and perceived organizational support and emotional exhaustion as the mediating variables, and studies the influence of work-family conflict on work engagement and the mechanism of perceived organizational support and emotional exhaustion of female university teachers in China, based on the job demand-resource model (JD-R). The results of the questionnaire survey of 518 female university teachers revealed a significant negative relationship between work-family conflict and work engagement, with a direct effect accounting for 31.88%. The indirect effect of work-family conflict on work engagement through perceived organizational support was significant, accounting for 63.19%, while the mediating effect of emotional exhaustion was not notable and the chain mediating influence of perceived organizational support and emotional exhaustion was not significant.

 

Key words: Work-family conflict, work engagement, emotional exhaustion, perceived organizational support.