DEVELOPMENT OF A MEASURE OF ROLE-CONFLICT

This article describes the development of a measure of role conflict. Role conflict was conceptualized as consisting of four dimensions: int rasender, intersender, interrole, and person-role conflict respectivel y. Study 1 (N = 65), which was conducted to pilot test the 96 item que stionnaire (reduced from 224 items after expert rating), resulted in t he reduction of the questionnaire to 43 items with three interpretable dimensions, Study 2 (N = 100) was carried out to examine the construc t validity of the scale and confirm the factor structure. There was co nvergence with the findings of Study 1. Cronbach alpha for each subsca le was adequate, and evidence of concurrent convergent and discriminan t validities was found Study 3 (N = 242) attempted to provide some nor mative data for the measure, in addition to carrying out a confirmator y factor analysis (CFA) using LISREL. The findings of Study 2 were alm ost duplicated and the CFA results lent greater support to a three-fac tor structure of role conflict.