TITLE:
The Relationship between Recovery Experience and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Work-Family Enrichment
AUTHORS:
Yaran Zhou
KEYWORDS:
Recovery Experience, Life Satisfaction, Work-Family Enrichment, Conservation of Resource Theory
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.12 No.4,
April
19,
2021
ABSTRACT: Objectives: To analyze the factors that affect the life satisfaction of employees and to explore the mechanism of recovery experience
affecting life satisfaction. Methods: The study uses the questionnaire survey
to conduct convenient sampling surveys. Sonnentag and Fritz’s Recovery
Experience Scale, Work-Family Gain Scale developed by Carlson et al. and Life Satisfaction
Scale developed by Diener et al. were used to survey 500 employees in Wuhan. Results: Regression analysis revealed that recovery experience positively influenced life
satisfaction. Direct effect of recovery experience on life satisfaction is 0.646
(p 0.01). Mediation
analysis found that recovery experience influenced life satisfaction through work-family
enrichment. Indirect effect of recovery experience on life satisfaction is 0.213
(p 0.001). Conclusions: 1) Employees’ recovery
experience positively predicted life satisfaction; 2) Work-family enrichment mediated
the relationship between recovery experience and life satisfaction. Our results
show both limitations and intriguing directions for future research.