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International Journal of Contemporary Business StudiesVol: 4, No: 2. February, 2013 ISSN 2156-7506Available online at http://www.akpinsight.webs.comLife satisfaction linkages with time effects was also found for waged construction workers by Lingard,Francis & Turner (2010) that reported higher levels of time-based and strain-based Work Interferencewith Family (WIF) than salaried workers, who work predominantly in office-based roles. The experiencesof WIF varied by workers’ employment situation, sex, and work location, while the experience of FIWvaried by workers’ age. Male employees were found to experience higher WIF & FIW than their femalecolleagues.WIF was highest for 31-40 years age category, but the FIW was low for the below 30 yearscategory. Life satisfaction can create multiple negative effects for both partners as studied byBrummelhuis, Haar & Lippe (2010) by looking at their work and family demands and the resulting timeand energy deficits experienced by each partner. The results showed that for both partners work andfamily demands increase time deficit and energy deficit. Energy deficit due to heavy demands resulted inmore feelings of distress, whereas time deficit did not contribute significantly to distress. Feelings of timedeficit and energy deficit crossed over from the man to the woman, whereas feelings of distress crossedover from the woman to the man. Life satisfaction can also be directly linked to the impact of transitionsfrom unemployment to full-time employment, with special focus on the influence of job quality (selfreportedjob satisfaction, wages, type of contract, and indicators of the fit between the worker and jobrequirements). (Grun, Hauser & Rhein, 2010) suggest that job quality only matters to some extent, andoften people in bad jobs are still better off than those who remain unemployed. This effect is statisticallysignificant for most indicators of job quality, except for workers with low job satisfaction and for thosewhose new job is much worse than their pre-unemployment job.6. PROPOSED RESEARCH MODELThis paper, a conceptual review of the studies conducted in the area of Life Satisfaction proposes tointroduce the following model.Cumulative Criticalstress incident indexWork-FamilyRole DistortionPersonal SpaceQuotientTaking cues from the performance management literature, the above model can form a precedent topolicy makers to ensure that they help their employees to overcome time and energy deficits arisingthereof due to heavy workloads.This model introduces the concepts of Cumulative Critical Stress Incident Index (CCSII) which makes acumulative compilation of the stress levels for each category of job keeping in mind the critical incidentsthat create stress. This cumulative index helps in understanding and measuring the extent of work-familyrole distortion arising thereof. Work-Family role distortion highlights the extent of blurred activities dueto excessive demands from both work and family roles. This equation in turn determines the PersonalSpace Quotient experienced by an employee. Personal space quotient can potentially lower the lifesatisfaction experienced by employees as it creates higher unsatisfied family demands due to overengagementwith the work related aspects. Personal space quotient can be decisively taken as a workinghours’ satisfaction or a workday satisfaction from a critical incident perspective. Higher the CumulativeCritical Stress Incident Index (CCSII), greater the Work-Family role distortion and hence lower is thePersonal Space Quotient for an individual employee.7. FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND SCOPE FOR RESEARCHThere are several limitations that point to potential areas for future research. Most studies till date haveconsidered life satisfaction as an aftermath consequence of work related aspects. Its effects have beenobserved with the job level or the organizational level taken as an antecedent to the creation of2013©Academy of Knowledge Process36