AN INVESTIGATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB STRAIN, WORK-TO-LEISURE CONFLICT, OCCUPATIONAL SATISFACTION AND LIFE SATISFACTION

This study was conducted on hotel employees and the aim of the study was investigating the relationship between job strain, workto-leisure conflict, occupational satisfaction and life satisfaction. The factors which may affect hotel employees in experiencing work-to-leisure conflict were determined as “job demands” and “job control”, like in Karasek's (1979) job strain model. The study was conducted in Bodrum destination and 325 questionnaires obtained from 12 hotel enterprises were analyzed. In this context, the results showed that most of the participants work over 8 hours and they have low degree of work-to-leisure conflict. The level of life satisfaction of the participants is average. Because of not exhibiting normal distribution of the obtained data, Spearman Rank Correlation was used for analyzing the variables. Consequently, the positively directed relationships between job demands and work-to-leisure conflict; job control and life satisfaction; job control and occupational satisfaction; occupational satisfaction and life satisfaction were determined. On the other hand, the negatively directed relationship between work-to-leisure conflict and occupational satisfaction was detected. Moreover, it was seen that long working hours increased the volume of work-to-leisure conflict, but conversely, the increase in the level of income decreased the volume of the mentioned conflict.