The Impact of Work-Family Conflict on Continuance Commitment under the Mediation of Emotional Exhaustion and the Role of Social Support as Moderator: Among Academic Staff

Abstract

This study proposes and tested a model that inspect whether the social support as a moderator and emotional exhaustion as a mediator effect’s the relationship between work-family conflict and continuance commitment. The relationship of these variables were tested by using Spss. Data is collected from the employees of 4 institutions in Islamabad. Total 152 sample size is used in this study. Results of this study suggest that Emotional exhaustion act as a mediator and the moderator which is social support has a strong negative impact on Continuance commitment which is weakening the effect of emotional exhaustion among the academic staff. Implications of the results are discussed and avenues for future research are offered.

Keywords: Work-family conflict, Emotional exhaustion, social support and Continuance commitment.