Role of Social Network on Life Satisfaction among Older Persons in Delhi, India: a Structural Equation Modelling

Purpose – The aim of this study is to determine the effect of organisational culture dominating an organisation on employees’ life and job satisfaction which have many effects on their work and non-work lives. Hotels are labor intensive businesses in the service sector. Employees’ success can play an important role in product quality, customer satisfaction and organisational success. For this reason, it is important for hotels to examine the factors and the relationships between these factors affecting employees’ success. Design/methodology/approach – The research was designed in a descriptive manner. The data of the research were collected from 435 hotel employees using a questionnaire method. In the research model, the effects of the independent variables such as the organisational culture types of achievement, power, support and hierarchy on the dependent variables such as life and job satisfaction were examined. The effect of the independent variables of the study on the dependent variables was examined through the revealed hypotheses and the structural equation model was used to confirm theoretical model. Findings – As a result of the analysis, while the support culture (4,05) is perceived most, it is followed by the achievement (3,86) and hierarchy culture (3,42). The type of culture perceived at the lowest level was the power culture (3,12). Means were found to be 3,28 for life satisfaction and 3,64 for job satisfaction statements. As a result of the analysis conducted within the scope of the study, it was seen that the support culture perceived by the employees in their hotels positively affect their life (0,30) and job satisfaction (0,25). In addition, according to the results of the research, it was determined that the achievement culture negatively affects the employees’ life satisfaction (-, 0,30). Discussion – According to the results of the research, it can be said that employees’ life and job satisfaction levels increase in the organisations where the support culture is dominant, while their life satisfaction level decreases in the organisations with the power culture. According to these results, it is recommended that businesses should examine the culture levels perceived in their hotels in more detail and develop policies and strategies to increase the supportive organisational culture and reduce the power culture.

Purpose Work–family conflict is one of the most challenging stressors for construction industry professionals to cope with emotional problems. This study aims to propose a model linking work–family conflict and high-quality relationships among project team members and explore mediating effects of life and job satisfactions. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical framework was established based on the spillover theory and social exchange theory. Data were obtained by a questionnaire survey conducted with 328 respondents working in construction projects. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test interrelationships among work–family conflict, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and high-quality relationship. Findings The results indicate that work–family conflict is negatively associated with both job and life satisfactions of construction professionals. In addition, there were direct and positive relationships between satisfaction domains and high-quality relationship capacity. The findings further support that job satisfaction plays a mediating role between work–family conflict and high-quality relationship among construction professionals, while life satisfaction does not mediate the relationship. Originality/value The effects of interrole conflicts on the context of satisfaction have been investigated previously; however, there is a lack of knowledge regarding its influence on high-quality relationship among project team members. This study extends the body of knowledge on high-quality relationships among project team members to understand how conflict and satisfaction factors influence interpersonal relationships in construction project management.

espanolThe study aimed to determine the type of relationships that could exist between work design, engagement, and life satisfaction. This research was carried out in Madrid, Spain, where a random sample of 305 people answered a survey. All those constructs were assessed with the following instruments: Work Design Questionnaire - WDQ-; Utrecht Work Engagement Scale - UWES - in its short version of 9 items; and Satisfaction with Life Scale - SWLS. The Structural Equation Model (SEM) is proposed in order to determine how work design, engagement and life satisfaction are related. Results from SEM showed that work design indirectly affects life satisfaction and also can serve as predictor of engagement. In other words, work design fully mediates the relationship between engagement and life satisfaction. EnglishThe study aimed to determine the type of relationships that could exist between work design, engagement, and life satisfaction. This research was carried out in Madrid, Spain, where a random sample of 305 people answered a survey. All those constructs were assessed with the following instruments: Work Design Questionnaire (WDQ); Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) in its short version of 9 items; and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). The Structural Equation Model (SEM) was decided on in order to determine how work design, engagement and life satisfaction are related. Results from SEM showed that work design indirectly affects life satisfaction and also can serve as a predictor of engagement. In other words, work design fully mediates the relationship between engagement and life satisfaction.

目的探析生活满意度和社会支持在青少年非自杀性自伤（non-suicidal self-injury, NSSI）与家庭复原力关系之间的中介和调节作用。方法选取成都儿童正向成长队列（Chengdu Positive Child Development, CPCD）中2022年6月第四轮调查的8372名青少年作为研究对象。采用问卷调查法评定调查对象NSSI行为、家庭复原力、生活满意度、社会支持、人口学资料等相关信息。采用卡方检验、独立样本t检验比较组间差异，Pearson相关分析评估各变量之间的相关性，二元logistic回归分析青少年NSSI影响因素，利用Mplus 7.0统计软件设定结构方程模型。结果研究对象NSSI发生率为23.7%。logistic回归分析显示，家庭复原力〔比值比（odds ratio, OR）=0.932，95%置信区间（confidence interval, CI）：0.895～0.970〕、女性（OR=0.873，95%CI：0.784～0.972）、家长受教育程度（OR=0.816，95%CI：0.686～0.971）、社会支持（OR=0.801，95%CI：0.735～0.873）、生活满意度（OR=0.558，95%CI：0.532～0.587）为NSSI的保护因素。结构方程模型结果表明，家庭复原力可直接影响青少年NSSI（β=－0.031，95%CI：－0.053～－0.011），也可以通过生活满意度的中介作用对青少年NSSI产生影响（间接效应β=－0.048，95%CI：－0.057～－0.039）。家庭复原力与社会支持的交互项对生活满意度的预测效应为负向（β=－0.037，95%CI：－0.059～－0.014），对NSSI的预测效应为正向（β=0.024，95%CI：0.002～0.047），表明社会支持在家庭复原力对生活满意度和NSSI影响路径中具有调节作用。结论家庭复原力可直接并通过生活满意度的中介作用、社会支持的调节作用影响青少年NSSI，提示相关干预措施应重视提升家庭复原力水平、青少年生活满意度和社会支持。

Understanding the benefits of participating in leisure activities can help individuals allocate their time to meaningful activities, positively influencing their physical and mental health, social relationships, work productivity, self-satisfaction, and overall life quality. This study examined life satisfaction as a well-being concept, introducing leisure satisfaction as a mediator between leisure benefits and life satisfaction. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was conducted with 751 exercise participants. The mediator role of leisure satisfaction aimed to clarify the influence of leisure experiences on overall life satisfaction. To explore these relationships, two conceptual models were tested using SEM with samples of individuals engaging in physical activity during their leisure time. In the first model, the direct relationship between leisure benefits and life satisfaction was analysed, yielding a regression coefficient of .28 (p=.000; t=3.89). In the second model, leisure satisfaction was included as a mediator. Results showed regression coefficients of .67 (p=.000; t=9.59) for the relationship between leisure benefits and leisure satisfaction, and .38 (p=.000; t=3.64) for the relationship between leisure satisfaction and life satisfaction. These findings support a full mediation role of leisure satisfaction in the link between leisure benefits and life satisfaction. The results highlight the importance of fostering enriching leisure experiences to enhance individuals’ satisfaction and happiness. Future research could further investigate the direct and indirect effects of various leisure perceptions on different dimensions of well-being.

Attention on, and interest in, life satisfaction has increased worldwide. However, research on life satisfaction focused toward the urban dwellers’ residential community is mainly from western countries, and the limited research from China is solely focused on the geriatric population via a narrowly constrained research perspective. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate urbanites’ life satisfaction toward their community, combining the psychological (behavioral community engagement, mental state of flow, and cognitive community identity), physical (PREQIs-perceived residential environment quality indicators: e.g., green area), and social perspectives (social capital). The proposed conceptual model was tested on a regionally representative sample of 508 urban community residents in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. Data were analyzed via a structure equation modelling approach in AMOS software. Findings suggested that all of the psychological, physical and social factors contributed to a prediction of life satisfaction. Specifically, social capital mediated the path from community engagement and flow to life satisfaction, and community identity mediated the path from flow experience and green area to life satisfaction. Additionally, social capital contributed to predict life satisfaction through its influence on community identity. Findings provide suggestions for urban designers and policymakers to focus on creating an urban community equipped with green area, which helps to promote physical activities that are flow-productive, to enhance residents’ identification to their residential community and, therefore, increase life satisfaction.

This study aims to elucidate the relationships between happiness, life satisfaction, and subjective vitality among student-athletes. Conducted using a correlational survey method, the research included a total of 400 students (149 female and 251 male) enrolled in sports sciences programs across three different universities (Mean age = 21.31 ± 2.32). The data collection tools employed were the “Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)”, the “Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS)”, and the “Life Satisfaction Scale (LSS)”. The suitability of the data for analysis was determined based on skewness and kurtosis values. The data were analyzed using IBM AMOS V25 software (Chicago, USA), and the relationships among happiness, life satisfaction, and vitality were tested using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The structural equation model revealed that the path coefficient between vitality and happiness was β1 = 0.541, p = 0.001, and the path coefficient between life satisfaction and happiness was β1 = 0.441, p = 0.001, both of which were statistically significant. In other words, life satisfaction explains 44% of subjective well-being, while subjective vitality accounts for 54% of subjective well-being. The results suggest that increasing individuals' levels of life satisfaction and subjective vitality may also enhance their level of happiness.

Research has evaluated the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns on individuals' life satisfaction, but wellbeing interrelations between family members in this context have been less explored. This study examined the spillover and crossover effects of one parent's job satisfaction (JS), satisfaction with family life (SWFaL) and satisfaction with food-related life (SWFoL) on their own, their partner's, and their adolescent children's life satisfaction (LS), and the influence of adolescents' SWFaL and SWFoL on their own and their parents' LS, in dual-earner families with adolescents. The moderating role of job-related variables of both parents were also explored. Questionnaires were administered to 860 dual-earner parents with adolescents in two cities in Chile during 2020. Mothers and fathers answered the Overall Job Satisfaction Scale and the three family members answered the Satisfaction with Life Scale, the Satisfaction with Family Life Scale and the Satisfaction with Food-related Life Scale. Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model and structural equation modeling, we found that fathers' LS was positively associated with their own JS, SWFaL and SWFoL (spillover), and negatively with adolescents' SWFoL (crossover). Likewise, mothers' LS was positively associated with their own JS, SWFaL and SWFoL (spillover), with fathers' and adolescents' SWFaL, and negatively with adolescents' SWFoL. Adolescents' LS was positively associated with their own SWFaL and SWFoL (spillover), and with their fathers' JS, and negatively with their fathers' SWFoL. JS showed gendered patterns in spillover and crossover associations. Parents' type of employment, mothers' working hours and city of residence moderated some spillover and crossover associations for father-mother and parent-adolescent dyads. These findings suggest that, for dual-earner parents with adolescents, improving individuals' LS requires interventions that should be carried out not individually, but at a family level.

This paper examined the role of loneliness in mediating the relation between social support and life satisfaction among Chinese young adults within the Malaysian context. Young adults (N = 275; Mage = 22.41; SD = 1.76; 57.5% females) completed self-administered questionnaires on the scales of perceived social support, loneliness and life satisfaction. The results of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) showed a partial mediation effect of loneliness on the relation between social support and life satisfaction. The integration of the bottom-up theory of subjective well-being and social cognitive theory is included to explain the mediating process. The results revealed that perceived social support can relate to a lower level of loneliness, which could eventually lead to higher levels of young adults’ life satisfaction. Overall, the findings highlighted the importance of social support as well as their loneliness as a mediating pathway in promoting Malaysian Chinese young adults’ life satisfaction. Interventions are also suggested to optimize life satisfaction as a whole.

Rural-urban differences in older adults’ life satisfaction and its determining factors

Background Children affected by war and political violence deploy agentic competencies to cope with trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties. However, it does not always act as a protective factor to help them adjust to potentially traumatic events. Aims We expected to explore the association between agency, trauma symptoms and psychological difficulties and the mediating role of hope and life satisfaction in a group of child victims of military violence in Palestine. Methods 965 children aged 8 to 14 were assessed with self-reported measures, War Child Agency Assessment Scale, Children Revised Impact of events scale, Strengths and difficulties scale, Child Hope Scale and Brief Multidimensional Students Life Satisfaction Scale. Structural Equation Modelling was performed having Agency as a predictor, trauma symptoms, psychological difficulties as an outcome variable and life satisfaction and hope as a mediator. Results We found a direct and positive effect of agency on trauma symptoms, psychological difficulties, and life satisfaction and hope on the two dependent variables. Life satisfaction and hope mediated the association between agency and the outcome variables. Conclusion Agency can help defend children from trauma and psychological maladaptation when it acts on life satisfaction and hope. At the same time, it might worsen psychological dysfunctions when working directly on trauma symptoms and difficulties. Clinical interventions must help children to foster agentic resources in activating hope and life satisfaction.

This study aims to determine the effect of Work life Balance, Flexible Time Arrangement and Life Satisfaction of Indonesian Ombudsman employees. The research population used was the Ombudsman of the Republic of Indonesia, while the sample used amounted to 102 employees. The sampling technique uses random sampling in employees both at the Indonesian Ombudsman who are at the center and at the representative. Data analysis techniques using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results of this study show that flexibility work arrangement has a positive effect on Life satisfaction, shown by p value 0.000 < 0.05 and positive path coefficient of 0.503 meaning that the higher the flexibility work arrangement, the higher Life satisfaction. Flexibility work arrangement has a positive effect on work life balance, shown by p value 0.000 < 0.05 and positive path coefficient of 0.576 meaning that the higher the flexibility of work arrangement, the higher the work life balance. Work-life balance has a positive effect on Life satisfaction, shown by p value 0.000 < 0.05 and a positive path coefficient of 0.527 meaning that the higher the work life balance, the higher the Life satisfaction. In this study it can also be concluded that Work life balance can mediate the effect of flexibility work arrangement on Life satisfaction, indicated by p value 0.000 < 0.05, based on the value of R square adjusted variable Life satisfaction of 0.833 this means 83.3% of the variable Life satisfaction is influenced by the variables flexibility work arrangement and work life balance, while the remaining 16.7% variable Life satisfaction is influenced by factors outside the variable flexibility work arrangement and work life balance. Furthermore, the variable work life balance shows an R square adjusted of 0.325, this means that 32.5% of the variability of work life balance is influenced by the variable flexibility work arrangement, while the remaining 67.5% of the variable work life balance is influenced by factors other than the variable flexibility work arrangement.

Aims1. to elaborate a general model of physical appearance taking into account body image (BI) and orofacial appearance (OA) components; and 2. to evaluate the impact of BI and OA on life satisfaction among Brazilian adults.MethodsThis is a cross-sectional observational study. The cognitive, behavioral, affective, and satisfaction/dissatisfaction aspects of BI, the satisfaction and psychosocial impact of OA, and life satisfaction were evaluated by self-reported psychometric scales. Principal Component Analysis and Parallel Analysis were performed. Structural equation models were elaborated to estimate the impact of BI and OA on life satisfaction. The fit of the models was verified and the significance of the path estimates (β) was evaluated using z-tests (α = 5%).ResultsA total of 1,940 individuals participated in the study (age: mean = 24.8, standard deviation = 5.7 years; females = 70.1%). In the male sample, three physical appearance factors were retained (OA, cognitive and behavioral components of BI, and affective and satisfaction/dissatisfaction components of BI). In the female sample, two factors were retained (OA and all components of BI). All factors had significant impact on life satisfaction (β = |0.26|-|0.48|, p<0.001) in both samples. Individuals dissatisfied with BI and OA had lower levels of life satisfaction. For men, the affective and satisfaction components of BI had a greater impact on life satisfaction (β = 0.48, p<0.001) than the other factors (β =] -0.30;-0.25[, p<0.001). For women, both BI and OA had a similar impact (BI: β = -0.30, p<0.001; OA: β = -0.32, p<0.001).ConclusionBI and OA formed distinct clusters in the physical appearance evaluation. Physical appearance was perceived differently by men and women, fostering discussion about the sociocultural construction of the body. BI and OA had a significant impact on life satisfaction and should be considered in assessment and treatment protocols.

Background: Nowadays, two social phenomena are identified as factors that significantly influence life satisfaction among adolescents: family social capital and social media use. This study aimed to investigate the direct and indirect relationships between family social capital and life satisfaction, and the possible mediating role of social media use between the variables among Iranian adolescents. Methods: In 2018, this cross-sectional study was carried out on 835 adolescents aged from 12to 19, in six high schools of Isfahan, Iran. Data were collected using a validated four-section questionnaire including demographic characteristics (3 items), life satisfaction (5 items), family social capital (31 items) and social media use (4 items) scales. IBM SPSS version 21 statistical software and AMOS version 24 were used to analyze the data. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the fit of model. The significance level of 0.05 was considered for all data analyses. Results: The findings indicated that family social capital and social media use explained 50%of the variance in life satisfaction. Social media use was found with a partial mediating role in the association between family social capital and life satisfaction. Family social capital was the strongest predictor of life satisfaction (β =0.681, P<0.001). The relationship between social media use and life satisfaction was also statistically significant (β =- 0.12, P<0.001). Conclusion: Social media use and family social capital should be considered while investigating the determinants of life satisfaction among adolescents.

The present study examines whether mothers’ positive work-related experiences, work engagement and recovery from work, are indirectly linked to their children’s life satisfaction via mothers’ perceived life satisfaction and closeness with their children. Theoretically the study is based on the spillover and crossover models of work–family interface with a particular focus on positive interface, as this is a gap in the existing research. The sample consisted of 671 Finnish mother–child dyads. Survey-based data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results showed that mothers’ work engagement and recovery from work were positively and indirectly associated with children’s life satisfaction via mothers’ life satisfaction and closeness with their children. The findings suggest that work-to-family crossover of positive work-related experiences does indeed occur from mothers to children. Employers should pay attention to mothers’ work engagement and recovery from work, because these positive work-related experiences are likely to promote mothers’ life satisfaction and a positive mother–child relationship which, in turn, may be reflected in children’s life satisfaction. Job resources and mental detachment from work while not working are vital for work engagement and recovery from work, and should be promoted.