THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMOTIONAL EXHAUSTION IN THE EFFECT OF WORKFAMILY CONFLICT ON LIFE SATISFACTION: A RESEARCH IN HEALTH INSTITUTIONS

Aim: In the study, the effects of the concept of work-family conflict on organizational and individual processes were tried to be tested. Within the framework of this aim, answers to the questions “Does the work-family conflict have an effect on emotional exhaustion and life satisfaction” and “Does emotional exhaustion have an mediating role between these two variables” were sought. Method: The data of the research were collected between September and November in 2019 with the participation of nurses (n = 301) providing health services in public hospitals in Malatya. The analysis of these collected data was performed with the SPSS program. Findings and Result: Findings have showed that work-family conflict is positively correlated with life satisfaction and emotional exhaustion in accordance with the main aim of the study and the findings obtained support H1, H2, H3 hypotheses, which are the research hypotheses, and the H4 hypothesis, which is determined as the main hypothesis of the research. According to these results, it is possible to say that emotional burnout has a partial mediating role in the effect of work-family work experienced by healthcare workers on life satisfaction.