Modeling the Emotional Foundations of Work–Life Equilibrium: A Structural and Moderated Analysis of Emotional Intelligence Dimensions Across Corporate Sectors

Emotional intelligence (EI) is becoming a basic significant condition in assessing the capacity of employees in a modern business setting to pursue work-life balance (WLB). This paper takes a closer look at the connection between the emotional intelligence and work-life balance upon the employees of the various corporate sectors with the dimensions taken as self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Corporate employees were surveyed using standardized instruments and their data were analyzed based on the reliability test, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression, as well as the structural equation modeling. The moderation analysis was to determine the effects of gender, age and work experience on the EI-WLB relationship, whereas the cross-sector comparisons were to reveal the industry variations. The findings demonstrate that the emotional intelligence is strongly positive related to the work-life balance, and the strongest predictors are self- regulation and empathy. As the moderation results show, this relationship is reinforced by age and experience, whereas differences by sex are industry-specific. The research paper informs about the relevance of emotional intelligence development as a strategy to promote the welfare of employees, organizational performance, and long-term workforce delivery.