By Natalie Wright
Shadow Health
Konstantin Kutschenko
Korn Ferry
Bryant A. Bush
Valdosta State University
Kelly Hannum
Aligned Impact LLC
Phillip W. Braddy
Center for Creative Leadership
Summary
Pervasive gender norms influence the way in which men and women create and experience work-life boundaries and work-life conflict, which may lead to differing conceptions of work-life boundary management. Measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) and predictive invariance analyses were conducted on the WorkLife Indicator(TM) (WLI), a measure of work-life boundary management, to determine if men and women maintain similar conceptualizations of work-life boundary constructs and if work-life outcomes are predicted equally well by WLI scales across gender. Three of the five WLI scales exhibited ME/I; however, half of the WLI scale-criterion pairings failed to demonstrate predictive invariance. These results indicate that measurement and/or predictive invariance cannot be assumed when using work-life boundary assessments across gender.
Citation
Wright, N. A., Kutschenko, K., Bush, B. A., Hannum, K. M., & Braddy, P.W. (2015). Measurement and predictive invariance of a work-life boundary measure across gender. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 23(2), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsa.12102
