TY  - EJOU
AU  - Kanu, Gabriel C. 
AU  - Adeji, Noah 
AU  - Obi, Tobias C. 
AU  - Omena, Elom S. 
AU  - Anike, Raphael U. 
AU  - Amaechi, Alexander U. 

TI  - The role of psychological meaningfulness in the relationship between job complexity and work-family conflict among secondary school teachers in Nigeria
T2  - Journal of Psychology in Africa

PY  - 2025
VL  - 35
IS  - 1
SN  - 1815-5626

AB  - This study examined how psychological meaningfulness moderates job complexity and work-family conflict in Nigerian secondary school teachers. This study included 1694 teachers from 17 Nigerian secondary schools (female = 69.54%, mean age = 33.19, SD = 6.44 years). The participants completed the Work-family Conflict Scale, Job Complexity Scale, and Psychological Meaningfulness Scale. Study design was cross-sectional. Hayes PROCESS macro analysis results indicate a higher work-family conflict with job complexity among the secondary school teachers. While psychological meaningfulness was not associated with work-family conflict, it moderated the link between job complexity and work-family conflict in secondary school teachers such that a meaningful work endorsement is associated with lower employee’s work-life conflict. These findings point to the importance of job functions to quality of family life. The study findings also suggest a need for supporting psychological meaningfulness for healthy work related quality of family life based on balancing work and family role demands.
KW  - psychological meaningfulness; job complexity; work-family conflict; secondary school; teachers

DO  - 10.32604/jpa.2025.065768