An Empirical Study of Work-Family Field: Identifying Psychographic Predictors of Work-Family Conflict
This study propounds to examine the dynamics of relationship among emotional intelligence, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy and work-family conflict in female lawyers. Correlational Cross-sectional research design was implicated in this research in order to test the hypothesis that emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and job satisfaction are likely to predict work-family conflict in young female lawyers. The sample comprised of n= 200 female lawyers, age ranging between 30-50 years, recruited from the civil and high court of Lahore, Pakistan. SPSS 23.0 was used to execute analyses that revealed that emotional intelligence was somehow having negative relationship with work-family conflict yet positively associated with self-efficacy. Findings of linear regression analysis divulge that emotional intelligence and self-efficacy are significant negative predictors of work-family conflict. Results from the current research provide insight for future researchers in seeking line of further inquiry on psychosocial dynamics of work-family life patterns of female lawyers.
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Emotional Intelligence; Female Lawyers; Job Satisfaction; SelfEfficacy; Work-Family Conflict.
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(1) Afsheen Masood
Assistant Professor, Institute of Applied Psychology,University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Sulman
PhD Scholar, School of Media & Communication Studies,University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Arooj Arshad
Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, University of Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Masood, A., Sulman, M., & Arshad, A. (2019). An Empirical Study of Work-Family Field: Identifying Psychographic Predictors of Work-Family Conflict. Global Regional Review, IV(III), 154-164. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-III).17
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CHICAGO : Masood, Afsheen, Muhammad Sulman, and Arooj Arshad. 2019. "An Empirical Study of Work-Family Field: Identifying Psychographic Predictors of Work-Family Conflict." Global Regional Review, IV (III): 154-164 doi: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-III).17
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OXFORD : Masood, Afsheen, Sulman, Muhammad, and Arshad, Arooj (2019), "An Empirical Study of Work-Family Field: Identifying Psychographic Predictors of Work-Family Conflict", Global Regional Review, IV (III), 154-164
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TURABIAN : Masood, Afsheen, Muhammad Sulman, and Arooj Arshad. "An Empirical Study of Work-Family Field: Identifying Psychographic Predictors of Work-Family Conflict." Global Regional Review IV, no. III (2019): 154-164. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-III).17