Work, family and social life are considered to be the most important spheres for an individual’s life. The current study focuses on to determine the level of work-life balance, to analyze the impacts of perceived role demands on work-life balance and to estimate the moderating effects of work ethics between role demands and work-life balance relationship among professionals in Sri Lanka. The sample consists of 386 professionals of Chartered Engineers, Medical Officers and Accountants employed in the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka. Explanatory research design with quantitative research approach of cross sectional survey method was adapted. Primary data was collected using Questionnaire survey with stratified random sampling techniques. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling approach with Amos 21 and SPSS statistics 23. The Multi-Group Analysis in Amos also has been applied for testing the moderation effect of work ethics. This study found that professionals possess a moderate level of work-life balance and there is significant and negative causal impacts of perceived work and social demands on work-life balance while combined effects of perceived role demands have significantly and negatively impact on work - life balance. Moreover, work-life balance is skewed towards works and less in family and social role demand is an emerging issue for professionals. Further, work ethic has significant and partial moderation effect between role demands and work-life balance relationships. This study is significant and beneficial for managers, organizational leaders and researchers to address the needs of employees to develop strategies and policies to address work - life balance issues and social implications for employees, family members, societies and researchers. The limitation of the study is that all of the measures were self-reported that common method variance may raise concern. Future studies using longitudinal design would be useful in establishing the temporal causal relationship among the private sector professionals in Sri Lanka.
The purpose of this study was to examine the level of psychological well-being among professionals and to determine the individual and combined impacts of perceived work, family and social role demands on psychological well-being and also to analyze the moderating effect of gender between perceived role demands and psychological well-being relationships. This research was designed based on both quantitative and cross sectional in nature. The data for the present study were collected through questionnaire survey and stratified random sampling techniques from a total of 386 Sri Lankan professionals of Chartered Engineers, Medical Officers and Accountants representing in the public service organizations in Sri Lanka. Multiple regression using SPSS 23 and Structural Equation Modeling in Amos 21 were used to analyze data. The results elucidated that professionals possess moderate level of psychological well-being. There is significant negative causal impacts of perceived work, family and social demands on psychological well-being. The degree of combined effects of perceived role demands were significantly impacts on Psychological Well-being. Furthermore, gender has significant moderation effect between perceived role demands and psychological well-being relationship. The limitation of this study was that of cross-sectional and all measures were self-reported that common method variance may influence the findings. This study is significance to professionals, employees, family members, human resource managers, medical officers, psychologist, policy makers and researchers to address the needs of employees regarding psychological well-being issues. This is one of the few studies to provide empirical evidence of social demands on psychological well-being in a collectivist cultural context of Sri Lanka. The value of this paper contributes to the understanding of individual and combined impacts of perceived work, family and social role demands on psychological well-being. Further studies using longitudinal design would be useful in establishing the temporal order of relationship among variables.
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