Palavras-chave
Satisfação com a vida
Satisfação profissional
Satisfação no trabalho
Professores universitários
Como Citar
Resumo
Purpose: To examine the mediating role of job satisfaction and professional satisfaction in the relationship between work addiction dimensions—excessive work and compulsive work—and life satisfaction among Brazilian university teachers.
Research methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 302 university teachers. Participants completed measures of life satisfaction, work addiction, job satisfaction, and professional satisfaction. Data were analyzed using correlations and parallel mediation.
Results: Professional satisfaction mediated the association between excessive work and life satisfaction. Job satisfaction showed a weaker indirect effect. Compulsive work was directly and negatively associated with life satisfaction, with no significant mediation through occupational satisfaction variables.
Discussion: The findings indicate that work addiction dimensions relate to well-being through distinct mechanisms. Excessive work affects life satisfaction indirectly via reduced professional satisfaction, suggesting that overinvestment in work may undermine broader evaluations of career meaning and accomplishment. In contrast, compulsive work shows a direct negative association with life satisfaction, reflecting its pervasive impact through internal pressure and difficulty detaching from work. These results support the differentiation between work addiction dimensions and align with spillover and conservation of resources perspectives, highlighting how occupational resource losses extend to the life domain. The stronger role of professional satisfaction suggests that career-level evaluations are more relevant than job-level appraisals for understanding well-being among university teachers.
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