Perceived Workload and Life Satisfaction of Police Officers: Moderated Mediating Roles of Organisational Support and Dispositional Optimism

NDUBUEZE, Kelechi I.; AKANNI, Abimbola A.; ODUARAN, Choja A.

Perceived Workload and Life Satisfaction of Police Officers: Moderated Mediating Roles of Organisational Support and Dispositional Optimism

Foundations of Management

Volume 17 (2025): Issue 1 (January 2025)

By: Kelechi I. NDUBUEZE

, Abimbola A. AKANNI

and Choja A. ODUARAN

Open Access

|Sep 2025

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Moderated mediation model of life satisfaction
(Source: Authors’ own research) — Moderated mediation model of life satisfaction (Source: Authors’ own research)

Multiple regression analysis of life satisfaction by perceived workload dimensions and organizational support (Source: Authors’ own research)

Predictor variables	Standardised coefficients	t	P-value	95.0% Confidence interval (CI)
Predictor variables	β	t	P-value	Lower bound	Upper bound
Mental demand	-0.50	-10.35	0.01	1.07	1.58
Physical demand	-0.04	-0.90	0.36	-0.36	0.13
Temporal demand	-0.04	-0.82	0.41	-0.29	0.12
Perceived risk	0.08	1.89	0.05	0.07	0.35
Frustration level	-0.17	-4.55	0.01	0.25	0.65
Performance	0.04	1.16	0.24	0.07	0.28
Organizational support	0.25	6.41	0.01	0.14	0.27
R = 0.72, R² = 0.53, F(7,376) = 60.64

Participants’ characteristics (Source: Authors’ own research)

Characteristics	Category	Frequency
Sex	MaleFemale	195189
Marital status	MarriedSingleSeparatedDivorced	27363435
Religious affiliation	ChristianMuslimOthers	2601240
Number of children	One to threeFour or more	29985
Ethnicity	HausaYorubaIgboOthers	1848199119
Educational qualification	Primary/secondaryNCE/NDB.Sc./HNDMastersPh.D.	1381558362

Mediating effect of organizational support in the perceived workload and life satisfaction link (Source: Authors’ own research)

Model pathways	β	SE	P-value	BC 95% CI	-
-	-	-	-	Lower limit	Upper limit
-	-	-	-	-	-
PW → OS→ LS	-0.05	0.01	<0.05	0.05	0.14

Reliability coefficient for scales in the validation study (Source: Authors’ own research)

Scales	Number of Items	Cronbach’s alpha	Correlation between forms	Spearman-Brown coefficient	Guttman split-half coefficient
Life Satisfaction Scale (SWLS)	5	0.70	0.15	0.26	0.21
Police Perceived Workload scale	12	0.67	0.54	0.70	0.70
Perceived Organizational SupportScale (POS)Life Orientation Scale	83	0.530.87	0.220.75	0.360.85	0.360.77

Moderated mediation of life satisfaction among police officers, tested using PROCESS Macro Vs 4_2 for IBM-SPSS version 25 (Source: Authors’ own research)

Models	β	SE	t	P-value	BC 95% CI	-
MV model	-	-	-	-	Lower limit	Upper limit
Constants	-2.28	2.76	-0.86	0.389	-7.82	3.05
PW	0.68	0.09	-7.44	0.001	0.50	0.86
DO	1.89	0.32	5.83	0.001	1.25	2.52
PW × DO	-0.05	0.00	-5.74	0.001	-0.06	-0.03
-	-	F (3, 360) = 36.75 R = 47, R² = 0.22	-	-	-	-
Dependent model	-	-	-	-	-	-
Constant	-3.96	1.88	-2.10	0.036	-7.66	-0.26
PW	0.33	0.06	5.03	0.001	0.20	0.46
OS	0.16	0.03	4.76	0.001	0.09	0.23
DO	0.85	0.23	3.71	0.001	-0.40	1.23
PW × DO	-0.01	0.06	-2.43	0.016	-0.02	-0.00
-	-	F (4, 379) =36.75 R = 68, R² = 0.46	-	-	-	-
Moderated mediation effectLevel of DO	β	SE	-	-	Lower limit	Upper limit
LowModerate	0.060.03	0.010.01	-	-	0.030.01	0.260.06
High	0.00	0.01	-	-	0.01	0.02
Index of moderated mediation	-0.08	0.02	-	-	0.01	-0.00

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fman-2025-0008 | Journal eISSN: 2300-5661 | Journal ISSN: 2080-7279

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Language: English

Page range: 113 - 124

Published on: Sep 30, 2025

Published by: Warsaw University of Technology

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

Dispositional optimism,

Life satisfaction,

Organizational support,

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Business management,

Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment

© 2025 Kelechi I. NDUBUEZE, Abimbola A. AKANNI, Choja A. ODUARAN, published by Warsaw University of Technology
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Multiple regression analysis of life satisfaction by perceived workload dimensions and organizational support (Source: Authors’ own research)

Participants’ characteristics (Source: Authors’ own research)

Mediating effect of organizational support in the perceived workload and life satisfaction link (Source: Authors’ own research)

Reliability coefficient for scales in the validation study (Source: Authors’ own research)

Moderated mediation of life satisfaction among police officers, tested using PROCESS Macro Vs 4_2 for IBM-SPSS version 25 (Source: Authors’ own research)

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