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Meaningful Work, Quality of Work-life, and Job Satisfaction: A Study of Nightlife Workers

Sudin * b.sudin.ng@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0003-4803-1626
Universitas Tarumanagara, Fakultas Psikologi, Jakarta, INDONESIA

Yohanes Budiarto * yobudiarto@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0003-2716-9378 * ResearcherID: D-3989-2019
Universitas Tarumanagara, Fakultas Psikologi, Jakarta, INDONESIA

Open Journal for Psychological Research, 2021, 5(1), 9-20 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojpr.0501.02009s
Received: 13 May 2021 ▪ Accepted: 30 July 2021 ▪ Published Online: 14 August 2021

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
Work is a means for man to fulfill their needs. However, from the positive psychology point of view, work is more than to fulfill the needs but beyond that reason. Work experiences provide added value to man’s lives and societal growth. Nightlife industries are hardly researched even though these industries have been growing vastly. Workers in these areas are similar to other workers from different types of industries in that they make meaning of their work and experience job satisfaction and quality of their work-life. This research aimed at testing the contribution of the quality of work-life and meaningful work toward job satisfaction of female nightlife business workers. Path analysis using PLS-SEM shows that the job satisfaction of nightlife workers is predicted by their meaningful work and quality of work life. In this study, meaningful work acts as a mediator in the relationship between quality of work-life and job satisfaction.

KEY WORDS: quality of work-life, job satisfaction, meaningful work, nightlife workers.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Sudin, Universitas Tarumanagara, Fakultas Psikologi, Jakarta, INDONESIA. E-mail: b.sudin.ng@gmail.com.

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