Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.853 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of attitudes toward maternal employment, covering perceived benefits and costs of mothers working outside the home. Used in family-work research.
Sample item(s)
“A working mother can establish just as warm a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work”
“Children whose mothers work suffer because they don't get enough attention (reverse)”
“A working mother feels more useful than one who doesn't hold a job”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.85. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Useful in family-friendly HRM and parental-leave research.
Source & citation
Greenberger, E., Goldberg, W. A., Crawford, T. J., & Granger, J. (1988): Beliefs about the consequences of maternal employment for children. Psychology of Women Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 35–59.
Greenberger et al. (1988): Maternal employment attitudes. PWQ, 12(1), 35–59.
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