The Effect of Work-Family Enrichment on Career and Life Satisfaction of Women Entrepreneurs

Abstract

Their roles in business and family life, which are two important areas of their life, are intertwined in the woman's life and these roles are in constant interaction. A positive or negative situation in one area may affect the other area and may have positive and negative effects depending on the situation. In this study conducted in this direction, a study was conducted on women entrepreneurs who played a large number of roles in the family and their jobs, and the relationships between job-family enrichment and life and career satisfaction of women entrepreneurs were examined. For this purpose, the data were collected from 336 women entrepreneurs operating in Adana using convenience-sampling method through surveys. After the questionnaire was prepared, necessary permissions were received from the Research and Publication Ethics Board of Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University (2018/3-4) and it was applied between April 5 and May 5, 2019. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to reveal the structural validity of the scales used in the study, and the indirect relationships between the variables were analyzed with the structural equation model. The results obtained from the confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the model fits well. As a result of the path analysis conducted to reveal the direct and indirect effects between the variables, it was revealed that work-family enrichment was positively related to career and life satisfaction. Similarly, career satisfaction has a mediation role in the effect of work-family enrichment on life satisfaction.