Love and work: career–family attitudes of new entrants into the labor force
✍ Scribed by Martha M. Sanders; Mark L. Lengnick-Hall; Cynthia A. Lengnick-Hall; Laura Steele-Clapp
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
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✦ Synopsis
This paper reports the development of the Career±Family Attitudes Measure (CFAM), a new 56-item instrument for measuring individuals' attitudes towards managing the career and family interface. The measure was administered to a large sample of high school students and factor analyzed to reveal six dimensions of career and family attitudes, which were then scaled. Females in the sample had signi®cantly more positive attitudes towards Balance and Independence than did males, while males had signi®cantly more positive attitudes towards Dominance and Spousal Support than did females. Antecedents such as parental employment history and educational aspirations were signi®cantly related to several of the scales. Results indicated that career± family attitudes involve preferences for the integration of career and family rather than for trade-os between them. Research to establish the validity and explore the many applications of the CFAM is needed. # 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Career±family attitudes
We de®ne the career±family attitudes construct as the pattern of preferences individuals have for trade-os among a broad spectrum of work and family issues. This de®nition incorporates several themes. The words pattern' and spectrum' indicate that the work±family interface is multidimensional, having relevance to one's career, home, partner, children, education, and leisure CCC 0894±3796/98/060603±17$17.50