Work–Family Conflict Scale: Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version

• Main Authors: Yura Loscalzo, Rosalba Raffagnino, Claudia Gonnelli, Marco Giannini
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-07-01
• Series: SAGE Open
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244019861495

In literature, there are many instruments for measuring the work–family conflict (W-F-C). The Work–Family Conflict Scale (WFCS) is one of the most used tools. This study aimed to evaluate its psychometric properties on a sample of 684 Italian workers (42.1% males, 57.9% females, mean age = 45.51 ± 10.91). We also evaluated if there were some demographic differences in the W-F-C, with relation to gender, the presence of children, and the kind of job (i.e., medical doctors and other health professionals, teachers and researchers, employees, manual workers, self-employed workers). We found that the Italian WFCS has good psychometric properties. Moreover, contrary to our hypotheses, males experience higher W-F-C than females, and the lowest level of W-F-C characterize doctors and other health professionals. Manual workers and self-employed workers seem to be the two job categories that experience the highest level of W-F-C.