The Role of Religiosity as a Coping Strategy in Copingwith Work-Family Conflict: The Case of Malaysian Women in Academia

• DOI: 10.7763/ijssh.2011.v1.14
• Publication Date: 2013-08-01T03:35:27Z
• Authors: Meguellati Achour; Ali Bin Boerhanno...
• Keywords: 5. Gender equality; 05 social sciences; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; 10. No inequality

The purpose of the present study is to examine religiosity as a strategy to achieve employees' well-being among Muslim women academic staff of Malaysian learning institutions. The determinants of well-being included under this research are job satisfaction, family satisfaction and life satisfaction. The researchers used 130 Muslim women of academic staff as respondents, working in Research Universities in the Klang Valley included University of Malaya, National University and Putra University, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Their ages ranged from 30 to 60 years. The results show that religiosity is positively related with well-being and work-family demands, although negatively not significant, related with work-family conflict. The findings also revealed that work-family conflict is significantly related to work-family demands and negatively related to well-being.