註釋 The present study examines the mediating role of psychological distress in the relationship of financial strain and employee engagement as well as the moderating role of emotional stability in the relationship of psychological distress and employee engagement. Financial strain was treated as the exogenous variable, psychological distress was analyzed as the mediating variable, Emotional Stability was examined as the moderating variable and employee engagement will be studied as the endogenous variable. Demographic variables such as age, gender, level of income, educational attainment, civil status, and family size was included in the test questionnaire to have supporting details about the participants for the interpretation of data. The cognitive evaluation theory (Deci, Koestner, Ryan & Cameron, 2001) was used to examine the relationship between Financial Strain and Employee Engagement. In addition, the spillover effect (Voydanoff, 1988 as cited in Reiner, 2001) was utilized to determine whether the stress brought upon by financial worries experienced by employees in the family domain can spillover to the work domain and affect the employee's engagement at work that will be triggered by psychological distress. Lastly, the Big 5 model (Robbins, 2003) was used to determine if emotional stability can moderate the relationship of psychological distress and employee engagement. Data were collected from non-government organization employees in Metro Manila. 