الامتنان كمتغير معدل للعلاقة بين الرضا عن الحياة و صراع الأسرة-العمل لدى عينة من الممرضات السعوديات

الملخص EN

The positive traits such as gratitude would help individuals to reach high level of psychological safety and mental health, and to become more satisfied with themselves, with their families, with their job, with others and with whole society.

in the light of this, the current study aimed to investigate the role of gratitude as a moderating variable in the relationship between life satisfaction and work-family conflict among a sample of Saudi nurses.

the study sample consisted of (178) Saudi nurses in the age range between (21-57 years), with mean age = 33.99, SD = 8.37.

a set of scales were applied to them, including the scale of gratitude (McCullough et al.

al.

, 2002), life satisfaction scale (Diener et al.

, 1985) and the scale of family-work conflict (Haslam et al.

, 2014).

data were processed using t-test, Pearson's correlation coefficient and path analysis.

the study reached a number of results, including there was a high level of gratitude and satisfaction with life among the study sample, and there was a low level of work-family conflict.

there was a statistically significant positive correlation between gratitude and life satisfaction, and a statistically significant negative correlation between satisfaction with life and work-family conflict.

there is a statistically significant role for gratitude as a moderating variable in the relationship between life satisfaction and family-work conflict.

in the light of the results of the study, a number of recommendations were presented.