Work-Life balance, life satisfaction and personality traits among teaching professionals

Perception of Work life balance (WLB) and sense of life satisfaction in relation to personality has become imperative for organizations in order to ensure enhanced performance among employees. Therefore, the present study has been conducted on teaching professionals to explore the work-life balance and its relationship with satisfaction with life and five-factors of personality traits. Standardized scales pertaining to work-life balance (Carlson, Grzywacz, & Zivnuska), satisfaction with life (Diener, Emmons, Larson, and Griffin), and personality (John, Neumann, & Soto) were administered on a sample of N=150 public sector school and college teaching professionals (n = 75 each from school and college). Inter-correlations were computed and t-test for independent sample was applied to reveal the group and gender differences. The results interpreted with in the Indian socio-cultural context and confirm that personality correlates significantly with work-life balance and satisfaction with life, but differently for both the groups. Further, school teachers were found high as compare to college teaching professionals. But no gender differences were reported.