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Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator

Work engagement is a vital practice that should be encouraged among employees and employers, particularly within large companies or organizations. This importance arises from the fact that such entities typically have multiple divisions and sub-divisions, including departments and sections. Work eng...

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Main Authors: Elpidia Juli, Md Sayed Uddin, Trixie Marjorie Tangit
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 2024
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HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class
HD7260-7780.8 Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
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https://doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v9i8.2901
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spelling my.ums.eprints.429162025-02-24T06:59:26Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42916/ Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator Elpidia Juli Md Sayed Uddin Trixie Marjorie Tangit HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class HD7260-7780.8 Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare Work engagement is a vital practice that should be encouraged among employees and employers, particularly within large companies or organizations. This importance arises from the fact that such entities typically have multiple divisions and sub-divisions, including departments and sections. Work engagement plays a crucial role in fostering effective teamwork among employees and employers across these various departments. While the interplay between work engagement and life satisfaction has been explored in both Western and non-Western studies, there is limited research on this topic within the context of Sabah, Malaysia. Moreover, research focusing on the relationship between work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah remains relatively sparse. This study aims to investigate the role of marital status as a moderator in the relationship between dimensions of work engagement and dimensions of life satisfaction. A total of 348 female government servants participated in this research, which employed a snowball sampling method. Data collection was concentrated in the district of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Questionnaires, both online and physical, were distributed among the participants. The findings suggest that marital status moderates the relationship between work engagement and life satisfaction among female government servants in Kota Kinabalu. Furthermore, marital status partially moderates the relationship between their dedication to job responsibilities and their cognitive life satisfaction. Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 2024 Article NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42916/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf Elpidia Juli and Md Sayed Uddin and Trixie Marjorie Tangit (2024) Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator. Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH), 9 (8). pp. 1-14. ISSN 2504-8562 https://doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v9i8.2901
institution Universiti Malaysia Sabah
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topic HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class
HD7260-7780.8 Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
spellingShingle HD4801-8943 Labor. Work. Working class
HD7260-7780.8 Industrial hygiene. Industrial welfare
Elpidia Juli
Md Sayed Uddin
Trixie Marjorie Tangit
Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator
description Work engagement is a vital practice that should be encouraged among employees and employers, particularly within large companies or organizations. This importance arises from the fact that such entities typically have multiple divisions and sub-divisions, including departments and sections. Work engagement plays a crucial role in fostering effective teamwork among employees and employers across these various departments. While the interplay between work engagement and life satisfaction has been explored in both Western and non-Western studies, there is limited research on this topic within the context of Sabah, Malaysia. Moreover, research focusing on the relationship between work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah remains relatively sparse. This study aims to investigate the role of marital status as a moderator in the relationship between dimensions of work engagement and dimensions of life satisfaction. A total of 348 female government servants participated in this research, which employed a snowball sampling method. Data collection was concentrated in the district of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Questionnaires, both online and physical, were distributed among the participants. The findings suggest that marital status moderates the relationship between work engagement and life satisfaction among female government servants in Kota Kinabalu. Furthermore, marital status partially moderates the relationship between their dedication to job responsibilities and their cognitive life satisfaction.
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author Elpidia Juli
Md Sayed Uddin
Trixie Marjorie Tangit
author_facet Elpidia Juli
Md Sayed Uddin
Trixie Marjorie Tangit
author_sort Elpidia Juli
title Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator
title_short Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator
title_full Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator
title_fullStr Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator
title_full_unstemmed Working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in Sabah, Malaysia: Marital status as the moderator
title_sort working women’s work engagement and life satisfaction in sabah, malaysia: marital status as the moderator
publisher Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH)
publishDate 2024
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42916/1/FULL%20TEXT.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/42916/
https://doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v9i8.2901
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