Construct Validation & Assessment of Work-Family Balance Among Indian Journalists

The present study aims to gain insight in to the prevalence of different dimensions of Work-Family Balance (WFB) among journalists. The nature of journalism profession induces employees to work at unpredictable hours, travel in all weathers, meet stringent daily deadlines, and find fresh stories everyday by being exposed to traumatizing events, which makes their work-family boundaries blurred. Data were collected from 212 full-time journalists working for the top ten dailies of Punjab (India). Using confirmatory factor analysis, the psychometric properties of WFB scale have been tested and results validate existence of four dimensions of WFB, i.e. work-to-family conflict, family- to-work conflict, work-to-family facilitation and family-to-work facilitation. It has been found that journalists experience greater work-to-family facilitation than work-to-family conflict.