Building family functioning scales into the study of at-home income generation
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Owen, Alma J.; Rowe, Barbara R.; Gritzmacher, Joan E.
- Source
- Journal of Family and Economic Issues; September 1992, Vol. 13 Issue: 3 p299-313, 15p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 10580476; 15733475
This article describes testing of scales designed to measure the ways family members interact in a personal subsystem. The scales are intended to complement data about the managerial subsystem of a family and are to be used in conjunction with a regional research project focused on home-based work. The article includes conceptual underpinnings, construction of measures, and results of factor analysis of the measures administered. Suggestions for use of a family functioning scale in the context of a household that has a member working at home are explored in the final section.