The importance of support for helping employees effectively manage competing work and family demands is widely recognized. However, research is limited on the role that coworkers play in this regard. In particular, generic instrumentation has limited the extent to which research has been able to successfully target the nature of family-specific coworker support, including consideration of the dimensionality of supportive behaviors. The current paper contributes toward rectifying this oversight by developing and offering initial psychometric support for the Family-Supportive Coworker Behavior (FSCB) measure. The resulting two-factor, eight-item measure assesses the extent to which employees perceive their coworkers as being willing to actively facilitate their work-family balance via both emotionally and instrumentally supportive behaviors. Using exploratory and confirmatory factor analytic techniques, parallel analysis, and model fit assessments, we demonstrate support for this long overdue measure across multiple samples, evidencing the measure's reliability, validity, dimensionality, and incrementally predictive utility, in addition to establishing an initial nomological net. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed, as are specific recommendations for how this measure can advance both work-family and teams research and practice alike.

支持帮助员工有效管理相互竞争的工作和家庭需求的重要性已得到广泛认可。然而，研究仅限于同事在这方面所扮演的角色。特别是，通用仪器限制了研究能够成功针对特定家庭同事支持的性质的程度，包括考虑支持行为的维度。目前的论文通过为支持家庭的同事行为 (FSCB) 措施开发和提供初步的心理测量支持来纠正这种疏忽。由此产生的双因素八项测量评估员工认为他们的同事愿意通过情感和工具支持行为积极促进他们的工作与家庭平衡的程度。使用探索性和验证性因素分析技术、平行分析和模型拟合评估，我们证明了对跨多个样本的这一早该进行的测量的支持，证明了该测量的可靠性、有效性、维度和增量预测效用，此外还建立了一个初始的法则网络. 讨论了理论和实践意义，以及有关该措施如何促进工作家庭和团队研究和实践等方面的具体建议。除了建立一个初始的法理网络。讨论了理论和实践意义，以及有关该措施如何促进工作家庭和团队研究和实践等方面的具体建议。除了建立一个初始的法理网络。讨论了理论和实践意义，以及有关该措施如何促进工作家庭和团队研究和实践等方面的具体建议。