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Work–Life Conflict, Professional Commitment, and Job Satisfaction Among Academics

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  • Isabelle Dorenkamp
  • Sascha Ruhle

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Based on the job demands-resources model and role conflict theories, we developed and tested hypotheses to elucidate the consequences that work-to-life and life-to-work conflicts have on job satisfaction and how affective, normative, and continuance professional commitment moderate these relationships. Using data collected from German academics, our results confirmed theoretical assumptions that work-to-life conflict and continuance commitment act as stressors that reduce job satisfaction, while affective commitment serves as a resource, as it lowers job satisfaction directly and buffers the negative impact of a work-to-life conflict on job satisfaction. Neither life-to-work conflict nor normative commitment had a direct impact on job satisfaction, but their interaction had a positive effect on job satisfaction. A groupwise analysis of academics with temporary positions and academics with permanent positions revealed that affective commitment was a moderator only in association with work-to-life conflict among temporarily employed academics and that normative and continuance commitment were moderators in association with the life-to-work conflict among permanently employed academics. We discuss the implications of these results for theory and policy.

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  • Isabelle Dorenkamp & Sascha Ruhle, 2019. "Work–Life Conflict, Professional Commitment, and Job Satisfaction Among Academics," The Journal of Higher Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 90(1), pages 56-84, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uhejxx:v:90:y:2019:i:1:p:56-84
    DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2018.1484644
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    1. Aziz Muslu, 2022. "Professional Commitment Levels of Officer Class Y Generation Seafarers," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, April.
    2. Tri Muji Ingarianti & Fendy Suhariadi & Fajrianthi Fajrianthi & Ika Febrian Kristiana, 2022. "The Effect of Antecedents of Teachers’ Subjective Career Success," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-15, September.
    3. Chi Yuan Chen, 2023. "Are Professors Satisfied With Their Jobs? The Factors That Influence Professors’ Job Satisfaction," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(3), pages 21582440231, July.

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