Work-Life Balance (Hayman)
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.933 sample items
About this scale
A 15-item measure of work-life balance across three dimensions: work interference with personal life, personal life interference with work, and work/personal life enhancement.
Sample item(s)
“My personal life suffers because of work”
“My job makes personal life difficult”
“My personal life gives me energy for my job”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.93. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Free for academic use.
Source & citation
Hayman, J. (2005): Psychometric assessment of an instrument designed to measure work life balance. Research and Practice in Human Resource Management, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 85–91.
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