Emotional Competence, Social Support, and Work-Life Balance: A Structural Equation Model on Workplace Resilience of Government Employees

The study aims to determine a best-fit model for workplace resilience as influenced by emotional competence, social support, and work-life balance of government employees. A non-experimental quantitative research design employing descriptive, predictive, and structural equation model to randomly selected 425 government employees in Region XI. The collected data from an adapted survey questionnaire were analyzed using mean, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, linear regression, and structural equation modeling. The findings of the study revealed that the level of emotional competence, social support, work-life balance, and workplace resilience were described as high which were oftentimes manifested among the government employees. Also, there was a strong significant correlation between emotional competence and workplace resilience; social support and workplace resilience; and work-life balance and workplace resilience as the p values of all the measures are less than the significant alpha value. Further, the result shows a significant influence of the three exogenous variables namely; emotional competence, social support, and work-life balance towards the endogenous variable which is workplace resilience. Lastly, Model 5 satisfied the goodness of all criteria signifying the best fit model for workplace resilience. The model successfully passed all the conventions of a reasonable fit; hence, it is deemed the most parsimonious model.