Abstract
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.
Highlights
Introduction to the StudySri Lanka is an Island situated in the Indian Ocean with a total population of 21 million
The basic Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of this study is the relationship between perceived work role demands (PWD), perceived family role demands (PFD) and perceived social role demands (PSD) and Psychological well-being (PWB) with maximum likelihood method
The analysis shows that professionals involved in this study possess an average level of psychological well-being but there are rooms for further improvements of their psychological well-being aspects
Summary
Sri Lanka is an Island situated in the Indian Ocean with a total population of 21 million. Well-being is defined as the state of having no anxiety, uneasiness, depression and other psychological disorders in individual’s life (Ryff, 1995). Role demands are defined as structural or psychological claims associated with role requirements, expectations and norms to which individuals must respond or adopt by exerting physical or mental effort (Voydanoff, 2004a). Psychological well-being is a broader concept and one of the most important mindful aspects based on individual experiences that determine the success of an individual in their work and personal life. According to Epidemiological report of Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka (2017), the estimated total depression and anxiety disorder cases in Sri Lanka are 4.1% and 3.4% respectively of total population. According to Register General, Sri Lanka (2019), suicide mortality rate in http://ibr.ccsenet.org
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