Perceived Work and Family Demand Scales
Sample items
- “I feel like I have a lot of work demand.”
- “I never seem to have enough time to get everything done at work.”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Boyar, Carr, Mosley Jr, and Carson
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“Let’s take a look at demographics, the workforce, and the family. As Sandy Burud and Marie Tumolo describe in their book, Leveraging the New Human Capital (2004), the change in the old “breadwinner” profile of worker—56 percent of employees in 1950, and as of 2000, only 21…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 53%
“Ensuring that employees’ dependents are well taken care of not only enhances employee productivity but also affects the health and wellness of the entire family system. At the same time, support for dependent care improves employee financial security and stimulates the creative…”
— The Compensation Handbook (6th ed.)match 49%
“Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS; Sheehan, 1983) The SDS is a composite of three self-rated items designed to measure the extent to which three major sectors in the patient’s life—work, social life, and family life—are impaired by psychiatric symptoms. Despite its brevity, the…”
— Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groupsmatch 47%
Resources: Worldatwork Handbook Compensation · The Compensation Handbook (6th ed.) · Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Groups