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Work: attitudes and wellbeing

Work-Family Enrichment Scale.

WFES

What it measures
Positive spillover between work and family roles in both directions across six dimensions: work-to-family development, affect and capital; family-to-work development, affect and efficiency.
Length and format
18 (3 per dimension). 5-pt agreement (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
ES, PT, ZH, NL, DE, FR, TR, KO, HI and others; standard in international work-family research.
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
open with attribution

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Reference
Carlson, D. S., Kacmar, K. M., Wayne, J. H., & Grzywacz, J. G. (2006). Measuring the positive side of the work-family interface: Development and validation of a work-family enrichment scale. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 68(1), 131-164.

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