Work is the main focus of our lives, especially due to long working hours and changes in social norms. There are all kinds of work and family conflicts. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of job fascination dimensions on psychological distress by emphasizing the mediating role of work-life conflict and the moderating role of job adaptability in working women in Yazd Municipality. The method of this research is descriptive-correlation using a questionnaire. The statistical population of the present study includes women working in the municipality of Yazd province, whose number is 152 people. To measure job fascination from Marsh et al. 's (2013) questionnaire, to measure psychological distress from Kessler et al. 's (2002) questionnaire, to measure work-family conflict from Rastegar Khalid questionnaire (2002) and to measure job adaptability from the questionnaire Savikas and Porphyry (2012) were used. The reliability of the instruments was eva‎luated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and the combined reliability and validity were eva‎luated using confirmatory factor analysis. The results showed the acceptable reliability and validity for the instruments. In the present study, for the tested model, the absolute fit index of GOF was 0.56, and the value obtained for this fit index indicates the proper fit of the test model. The results showed that work-life conflict, normal fascination and extreme fascination have an effect on psychological distress. Work-life conflict also affects psychological distress. Also, the mediating role of work-life conflict in the relationship between conventional fascination and extreme fascination with psychological distress is significant at the level of (0.01). Also, the moderating role of job adaptability in the relationship between extreme fascination and conventional fascination with psychological distress is significant.

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