1. Coworker Informal Work Accommodations to Family: Scale Development and Validation
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Leslie A. DeChurch, Toshio Murase, Miliani Jiménez, and Jessica Mesmer-Magnus
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Organizational citizenship behavior ,Applied Mathematics ,Work–family conflict ,Scale development ,Helping behavior ,Sample (statistics) ,Factor structure ,Education ,Work (electrical) ,Scale (social sciences) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Applied Psychology - Abstract
Drawing on research regarding the utility of coworker support in mitigating work/ family conflict, the authors developed a scale to measure Coworker-enacted Informal Work Accommodations to Family (C-IWAF). C-IWAF differs from coworker support in that it describes actual behaviors coworkers engage in to help one another deal with incompatible work and family demands. Results based on a sample of 390 working caregivers provide support for the independence of C-IWAF from other forms of coworker support. Analyses of the factor structure obtained for this instrument indicate that C-IWAF is composed of six unique factors: child care assistance, facilitating telework, continuing work modification, short-term work modification, helping behavior, and deviating behavior. Implications of these results for research and practice are discussed.
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- 2009
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