Journal of Educational, Health and Community Psychology
Vol 9, No 4, 2020 E-ISSN 2460-8467
Anwar,
Suhariadi,
Fajrianthi.
472
Measuring Career Well-Being on Working Mothers:
Adaptation of Well-Being at Work Scale
Hilwa Anwar
Doctoral Program at the Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga
Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Makassar
hilwa.anwar@unm.ac.id, hilwa.anwar-2014@psikologi.unair.ac.id
Fendy Suhariadi
Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga
fendy.suhariadi@psikologi.unair.ac.id
Fajrianthi
Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga
fajrianthi@psikologi.unair.ac.id
Abstract
This research aimed to conduct the adaptation and validation of the Well-Being at Work Scale
(WBWS) in order to ready it for implementation as the instrument to measure career well-being on
working mothers as respondents in Indonesia. The career well-being approach was based on the
concept of general well-being which included affective and cognitive components. The respondents
were mothers working full-time in the formal sector and had fulfilled the requirement of several pre-
determined criteria. The collected research data was analyzed with the confirmatory factor analysis in
order to obtain instrument reliability and validity. Based on the analysis, results were obtained that the
WBWS model adaptated had fulfilled the goodness-of-fit criteria, meaning that there was compatibility
between the developed model and the empirical data. Furthermore, this research was hoped to
provide contribution in the measurement and development of research of career well-being on
working mothers.
Keywords: Career well-being, scale adaptation, working mothers, WBWS.
Received 9 November 2020/Accepted 22 December 2020 ©Author all rights reserved
Introduction
The productive role of women became an important issue in Indonesia, caused by the number of
women in the productive age group to almost be similar to men. In 2014, the number of women in
the productive age group was 85 million, or around 65 percents of the total number of citizens
(BPS, 2014). This massive number showed the human resource potential for development, and if
women in the productive age were not able to work productively, it would result in economic
burden for Indonesia.