Abstract:

An employee who has a feeling of loneliness due to the fact that he cannot communicate properly in his work life and thinks that he cannot get enough support, experiences job dissatisfaction and life dissatisfaction, and may harm the business he works within negative situations such as a decrease in his work engagement. The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between work-life loneliness and life satisfaction, job satisfaction and work engagement in a comprehensive and detailed way on the sample of tourism sector employees. Research data were collected using a simple random sampling method from 338 employees, most of whom worked as managers in the tourism sector in Antalya. This study is based on two stages and 6 hypotheses with the path analysis performed with the help of structural equation modelling. In the research, the relationships of work-life loneliness, job and life satisfaction, and work engagement were investigated. As a result of the research, job satisfaction is between work-life loneliness and life satisfaction in business life; it has been confirmed that work engagement plays a mediating role between work-life loneliness and life satisfaction, and work engagement plays a mediating role in the relationship between work-life loneliness and job satisfaction in business life.

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