The Psychometric Evaluation of the Maternal Employment Guilt Scale: A Development and Validation Study

The aim of the current study is to develop Maternal Employment Guilt Scale (MEGS) and to test its psychometric properties. For this aim, scale items were developed through a rigorous process of extensive literature search and in-depth interviews, and the scale was applied to 605 working mothers living in Turkey. Exploratory factor analysis revealed that the MEGS had one-factor structure with 15 items, and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed this structure. MEGS has good psychometric characteristics with convergent and discriminant validity, regarding its correlations with other relevant scales used in this study.