Zhao Xiaocen (2018) The influece of family support, flexible working hours and hardiness on work-life balance of China working women. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
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Abstract
The aims of the present study was to investigatethe effect of family support, flexible working hours and hardiness characteristic on work-life balance of China working women. The study also aims to examine the moderating role of hardiness characteristic in the relationship between family support and work-life balance and in the relationship between flexible working hours and work-life balance of China Working women.A total of 395 working women in Hebei province, China were involved in this study. The instruments used in this study composed of: Measure of the Work-Life Balance; Measure of the Flexible Working Hour; Family Support Inventory; and Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15).The findings revealed that a) family support variables (emotional sustenance and instrumental assistance) had a positive and significant influence on work-life balance among China working women. Staff motivational level also was a significant and positive predictor forwork-life balance of China working women. However, the result showed a non-significant effect of flexible working hours on work-life balance of China working women. The finding for the direction of the correlation between hardiness and work-life balance also as expected. Lastly, the findings revealed that hardiness characteristic was not a moderator in all the relationship between all the independent variables in this study and work-life balance.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Keyword: | China working women, Work-life balance, family support, flexible working hours,hardiness. |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28-9999 Industries. Land use. Labor > HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class > HD6050-6305 Classes of labor Including women, children, students, middle-aged and older persons, minorities |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Psychology and Education |
| Depositing User: | DG MASNIAH AHMAD - |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2025 11:52 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2025 11:52 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44014 |
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