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3.2 MEASURES Table1: Constructs and items used
Construct
Scale
Source
No Of Items
Negative Worded Items
Name to negatively worded items
Work Life Balance
Job Stress
Role Ambiguity
Employee Performance
Autonomy
5 Point Likert Scale
5 Point Likert Scale
5 Point Likert Scale
5 Point Likert Scale
5 Point Likert Scale
Organizational stress: studies in role conflict and ambiguity by Robert Louis Kahn
Organizational stress: studies in role conflict and ambiguity by Robert Louis Kahn
Organizational stress: studies in role conflict and ambiguity by Robert Louis Kahn
Organizational stress: studies in role conflict and ambiguity by Robert Louis Kahn
' Perceived Situational Moderators of the Relationship Between
Subjective Role Ambiguity and Role Strain ' by Terry A. Beehr Journal of Applied Psychology
1976, Vol. 61, No. 1, 35-40
10
9
7
7
4
All
Js10
Ra1
Ep7
None
WLB1 _ Re, WLB2 _ Re, WLB3 _ Re, WLB4 _ Re, WLB5 _ Re, WLB6 _ Re, WLB7 _ Re, WLB8 _ Re, WLB9 _ Re, WLB10 _ Re
JS10 _ Re
RA1 _ Re
EP7 _ Re
None
All the negatively worded items in each construct are recoded. A factor analysis is performed on the responses collected from each construct( after duly recoding the negatively worded items in the original scale
Table 2: Factor Analysis Results Construct
Work Life Balance Job Stress Role Ambiguity Employee Performance Autonomy
No. of items submitted for factor analysis
10 9 7 7 4
All All RA1, RA3, RA4, RA5, RA6, RA7 EP1, EP2, EP3, EP4, EP5, EP6 All
No. of items finally retained
14