The Moderating Role of Job Satisfaction in the Relationship between Job Involvement and Psychological Well-being

This study investigates the moderating role of job satisfaction (JS) in the relationship between job involvement (JI) and psychological well-being (PWB). The research investigates the extent to which job satisfaction affects the relationship between job involvement and psychological well-being of secondary school teachers. Using multi-stage stratified random sampling, a total sample of 248 secondary school teachers was obtained to participate in the study that adopted a cross-sectional survey design. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data that were entered into the computer using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 27 (IBM SPSS). The hypothesis on moderation was tested using the PROCESS macro for SPSS (Hayes, 2022) through Model 1. Upon testing the hypotheses, this study found a positive and statistically significant relationship between job involvement and psychological well-being. Job satisfaction moderated the relationship between job involvement and psychological well-being. The study emphasizes the necessity of managers to capitalize on job satisfaction to improve the strength of the impact job involvement has on psychological well-being. Job satisfaction makes a nous of contentment within employees while doing their work; therefore, boosting employees’ psychological well-being through job involvement becomes a priority for every organization. This adds to the broad body of knowledge in the field of psychology as the first study to test the influence of JS on the relationship between JI and PWB among government secondary school teachers in Uganda. The study adds to the body of knowledge that supports the notion that JS can amplify the influence JI has on PWB.