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Journal of Business and Psychology
Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology 1/2019

16-01-2018 | Original Paper

Work-Family Behavioral Role Conflict: Scale Development and Validation

Authors: Malissa A. Clark, Rebecca J. Early, Boris B. Baltes, Daniel Krenn

Published in: Journal of Business and Psychology | Issue 1/2019

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Abstract

Common measures of work-family conflict focus on a person’s perception of conflict. However, these perceptual measures may not provide a complete picture of the range of specific instances of conflict individuals may experience. In the present study, we developed a psychometrically sound assessment of work-family behavioral role conflict through a multi-study process. In phase 1, an inductive approach was used to identify a list of specific behavioral instances of work-family conflict (both work-to-family and family-to-work) through focus group interviews. In phase 2, we reduced the total number of scale items, by eliminating behavioral items with importance scores below a minimum cutoff. In phase 3, we further reduced the total number of scale items and examined the intercorrelations between our new measure and two widely used perceptual measures of work-family conflict. Finally, in phase 4, we examined the incremental validity of the final behavioral measure above and beyond the most widely used measure of perceptions of work-family conflict (i.e., Carlson, Kacmar, & Williams, Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 249–276, 2000). Results indicate that the work-family behavioral role conflict scale explained a significant amount of incremental variance over a perceptual measure of work-family conflict for several important outcomes, including turnover, psychological strain, burnout, and depression. Overall, this study illustrates the benefit of assessing behavioral incidences of work-family conflict in addition to assessing perceptions of work-family conflict.
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Metadata
Title
Work-Family Behavioral Role Conflict: Scale Development and Validation
Authors
Malissa A. Clark
Rebecca J. Early
Boris B. Baltes
Daniel Krenn
Publication date
16-01-2018
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Business and Psychology / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0889-3268
Electronic ISSN: 1573-353X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-017-9529-2

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