Psychometric Instruments Review and Usage Adaptation among Nigerian Study Populations in WorkFamily Conflict Studies: Case Study of the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
Keywords:
: Job Demands Sub-Scale, Time Management Behaviour Scale, Social Support Scale, Psychological Empowerment Scale, Psychometric Instruments.Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review some Psychometric instruments
commonly utilised in the Work-Family Conflict Studies and to adopt them for
use among the Nigerian study populations. Broadly speaking, the majority of
the Psychometric instruments used in conducting research in Africa vis-a-viz,
Nigeria are alien and foreign to these researchers. In order to have to be
validated to suit local use, this is the gap, vacuum and loophole that this study
seeks to fill. Validity and reliability analyses of these Psychometric instruments
for use among the Nigerian populations were determined by administering the
questionnaires on a sample of 100 participants randomly selected from 375
staff of the University of Benin, Benin City South-South Nigeria and whose
results were not included in the main study. Validity and reliability analyses
were evaluated with the Cronbach alpha coefficient by utilising the IBM
statistical package for the social scientists (IBM SPSS) version 22 for windows
with an alpha correlation coefficient of between 0.71 and 0.86 the results
showed that the Psychometric instruments were valid and reliable for Nigerian
study populations. The study recommends that more studies of this nature
should be undertaken by Work-Family Conflict Researchers.
