Abstract
Job insecurity has received a considerable amount of research attention in recent years. The purpose of the present paper is to examine the mediating role of work-family conflict on the relationship between job insecurity and employee well-being and investigate gender differences in these relationships. The researchers focus on the cognitive component of employee well-being, and measure the concept by job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Using a sample of 283 employees (145 males and 138 females) from 15 companies in Guangzhou, the paper investigates that work-family conflict partially mediated the relationship between job insecurity and job satisfaction as well as that between job insecurity and life satisfaction. Further, a multi-group analysis indicated that the path coefficients significantly differed between female and male employees in main land China.