CONSTRUCT VALIDITY AND METRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING WORK-FAMILY BALANCE
Naser RAMADANI, Adem TAMO
Abstract
This study aims to assess the construct validity and metric characteristics of the instrument for measuring work-family balance among Albanian primary school teachers in the Republic of North Macedonia, using a non-experimental methodology and instrumental design. The study sample consists of a total of 137 teachers, of whom 34 are male and 104 are female, while 95 are from rural areas and 43 from urban areas. The concept of work-family balance is treated as an equal degree to which teachers engage in work and their family life.
In the construct validity procedure, only 26 questions were adapted to the final version from a total of 31 questions of the original questionnaire, while exploratory factor analysis grouped three factors that explain 66% of the variance, such as: time balance, involvement and satisfaction, as well as confirmatory analysis for the same factors explains the variance by 66%, while the Cronbach's Alpha reliability analysis resulted in high internal consistency for all factors and the instrument as a whole. The contribution of this study is in the fields of organizational psychology, educational psychology and psychometrics by providing appropriate dimensions of the instrument for measuring work-family balance among Albanian teachers in North Macedonia, and it also open a window for other researchers who will be interested in studying the same variables to evaluate the relevant scales with this instrument or to compare the data with another instrument for the same variables.
Pages: 122 - 133