Lijun Sun, Zhefei Mao and Jie Zhou, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China, China

The study linking the marriage with work explores the mechanism of action of employees’ marital satisfaction and job performance through establishing a moderated mediating effect model. The results of the correlation and regression analyses conducted by collecting questionnaires from 290 employees indicated that: (1) Emotional exhaustion and work engagement play a chain mediating role in the positive relationship between marital satisfaction and job performance. (2) Work meaningfulness and work engagement play a chain mediating role in the positive relationship between marital satisfaction and job performance. (3) The need to support a family moderates the relationship between marital satisfaction and work meaningfulness, as well as the mediating effect of work meaningfulness and work engagement on the relationship between marital satisfaction and job performance. (4) The need to support a family moderates the relationship between marital satisfaction and emotional exhaustion, as well as the mediating effect between emotional exhaustion and work engagement on marital satisfaction and job performance. (5) Self-efficacy moderates the relationship between marital satisfaction and work meaningfulness, as well as the mediating effect between work meaningfulness and work engagement on marital satisfaction and job performance. This study provides a new perspective of family as resources for improving employees’ job performance in management.

Marital satisfaction, job performance, emotional exhaustion, work engagement, work meaningfulness.