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<p>Traditional gender roles have relegated domestic skills to non-market spheres, underestimating their complexity and psychosocial importance and thereby perpetuating gender inequality. This study introduces and conceptualizes Household Management as a crucial ability and critically examines its dimensions, gendered expressions, and psychosocial significance through the development and factorial validation of the Household Management Scale (HoMS). The study involved 1,741 participants from Pakistan, including housewives and married men (M<sub>age</sub> = 38&#xa0;years, SD = 11.09; men = 27.3%). The factorial validation of the HoMS involved exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The HoMS, comprising twenty-nine items and six subscales (household organization and cleanliness, resource and budget management, household problem-solving and resilience, neighborhood relations and social harmony, family wellbeing and emotional support, and household safety and emergency preparedness) demonstrated excellent reliability (α = 0.958; ICC = 0.874). The model fit indices, such as CFI (0.935), TLI (0.927), RMSEA (0.057), and SRMSR (0.043), showed acceptable factorial validity. Gender comparison revealed that housewives scored significantly higher than married men, likely due to traditional gender roles and the disproportionate burden of domestic labor on women. Household Management is a multidimensional psychosocial skill set that warrants recognition as a legitimate psychological construct. The findings challenge patriarchal undervaluation of domestic competencies and advocate for the empirical inclusion of gendered domestic expertise in psychological research, social policy, and educational planning.</p>

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Development and Factorial Validation of the Household Management Scale (HoMS): Unveiling the Undervalued Managerial Competencies of Housewives in the Context of Traditional Sex Roles

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    2026年6月1日

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  • Waqar Husain,
  • Farrukh Ijaz,
  • Muhammad Ahmed Husain,
  • Syeda Ghazaal Pirzada,
  • Khaled Trabelsi,
  • Achraf Ammar,
  • Haitham Jahrami

摘要

Traditional gender roles have relegated domestic skills to non-market spheres, underestimating their complexity and psychosocial importance and thereby perpetuating gender inequality. This study introduces and conceptualizes Household Management as a crucial ability and critically examines its dimensions, gendered expressions, and psychosocial significance through the development and factorial validation of the Household Management Scale (HoMS). The study involved 1,741 participants from Pakistan, including housewives and married men (Mage = 38 years, SD = 11.09; men = 27.3%). The factorial validation of the HoMS involved exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The HoMS, comprising twenty-nine items and six subscales (household organization and cleanliness, resource and budget management, household problem-solving and resilience, neighborhood relations and social harmony, family wellbeing and emotional support, and household safety and emergency preparedness) demonstrated excellent reliability (α = 0.958; ICC = 0.874). The model fit indices, such as CFI (0.935), TLI (0.927), RMSEA (0.057), and SRMSR (0.043), showed acceptable factorial validity. Gender comparison revealed that housewives scored significantly higher than married men, likely due to traditional gender roles and the disproportionate burden of domestic labor on women. Household Management is a multidimensional psychosocial skill set that warrants recognition as a legitimate psychological construct. The findings challenge patriarchal undervaluation of domestic competencies and advocate for the empirical inclusion of gendered domestic expertise in psychological research, social policy, and educational planning.