Work Life Balance and Job Satisfaction - An Empirical Analyses Using Structural Equation Modeling

Abstract

Work-Life balance has its importance from ancient days and the concept is very old, from the day the
world has been created. There was a drastic change that has occurred in the market of teachers and their
personal profiles. There are tremendous changes in different types of families which have bartered from
the ‘breadwinner’ role of traditional men to single parent families and dual earning couples. This study
provides an insight into work life balance and job satisfaction of School teachers working in Villupuram
District. The sample comprises of 75 school teachers from Government and private schools in Villupuram
District. The Study results that there is increasing mediating evidence in Work-life balance as well as Job
satisfaction of teachers are not affected by the type of school in which they are working. The Work life
balance of an individual is one of the factors which affect their satisfaction or happiness with life as a
whole which can be measured through the construct of subjective well being