The Experience of Work-Family Balance Among Francophone Parents in the Ottawa Region: A Pilot Study
Several studies indicate that the experience of work-family balance (WFB) has a major impact on the health and the quality of life of families (Winter, et collab., 2006). The research objectives of this pilot study were to: 1) describe the experience of WFB in a group of francophone parents in the region of Ottawa, 2) develop, pretest and administer the questionnaire on work-family balance, and 3) conduct the first stage of validation of this instrument. This article presents the data collected from 46 participants in regard to their experiences and the strategies that they used for WFB as well as their suggestions to promote WFB.