The Effect of Job Satisfaction on Family Well-being

The problem of combining career and family is becoming increasingly tense in modern society among all countries around the world. Men and women have to balance building a career with family life and raising children. People try to allocate resources so as to devote enough energy and time to each of the spheres of life. It is obvious that work and family are closely linked and have an influence on each other. Work-family relationships can also be influenced by the cultural and social context of society, the ever-changing environment, and the individual and family characteristics. The goal of this work is to study the effect of different elements of job satisfaction on family well-being among the working population of Russia aged 18 to 65 years, officially married, both with and without children. In addition, this paper examines the difference in the effect of different components of job satisfaction on family well-being between men and women, as well as the difference in the effect of different components of job satisfaction on family well-being between families with and without children. The concept of job satisfaction is used as an individual's evaluation of different areas of work such as evaluation of overall job satisfaction, satisfaction with working conditions, salary, career opportunities, etc. The concept of family well-being is used as a complex construct that includes evaluation of mental and physical well-being of family members as well as financial well-being of the family, expectations about the future of the family and personal level of life satisfaction. The paper considers and takes into account the specific cultural context of the study as well as environmental specifics such as the Covid-19 pandemic and tense international relations. Using multiple linear regression, the relationship between job satisfaction and family well-being was confirmed, namely that lower satisfaction with any element of work and having negative work-related experiences are associated with lower levels of family well-being. Job satisfaction concept components such as overall job satisfaction, salary satisfaction, career opportunity satisfaction, experience of forced reduction in salary or working hours, trust to the leader, and trust to the colleagues are statistically significantly related to family well-being. Experience of paid holiday in the past 12 months and satisfaction with working conditions were found to be statistically insignificantly related to family well-being. Regarding gender differences in the effect of job satisfaction on family well-being, the difference in the effect of job satisfaction elements such as salary satisfaction and trust to the colleagues was confirmed. The existence of differences in the effect of different elements of job satisfaction on family well-being among families with and without children was not confirmed.