Abstract
This paper explores the antecedents of work-life balance and its relationship with job and life satisfaction. A proposed hypothesized model is advanced to examine the direct and indirect relationships between core self-evaluations, workload, and perceived organizational support with work-life balance and job satisfaction, in return, between work-life balance and job satisfaction with life satisfaction. The model is tested empirically using data gathered from a survey completed by 146 telecommuting Saudi workers. Results reveal a positive relationship between core self-evaluations and perceived organizational support and work-life balance and a negative relationship between quantitative workload with work-life balance. Also, job satisfaction fully mediates the relationship between work-life balance and life satisfaction. This study contributes to the literature on work-life balance, and satisfaction by showing how work-life balance and job satisfaction can play mediator roles respectively between the path of personality traits and of work condition to job satisfaction and between the path of work-life balance to life satisfaction. These findings are discussed and the implications for theory and practice are presented.
•This paper explores the antecedents of work-life balance of Saudi teleworkers and its outcomes (job and life satisfaction).•Results show significant relationships between antecedents and work-life balance.•Work-life balance plays a mediating role between antecedents and job satisfaction.•Job satisfaction fully mediates the relationship between work life balance and life satisfaction.•This study is one of the first to conduct such an investigation in the Saudi context.