Abstract
Session presented on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013:
Purpose: The Mariani Nursing Career Satisfaction Scale (MNCSS) Research Instrument was developed as an integral part of a research study conducted to explore the influence of mentoring on career satisfaction of registered nurses. A review of the literature revealed no available measure of career satisfaction.
Methods: The MNCSS is a semantic differential of 16-opposite adjectives scales which was developed for participants to rate their feelings about their nursing career. The MNCSS was used in a pilot study and three major studies exploring career satisfaction of registered nurses. Validity, reliability, and exploratory factor analysis (FA) were done to explore the internal structure of the instrument.
Results: The newly developed instrument had a content validity index of .84 and Cronbach alpha internal consistency reliabilities of .93 to .96 across three major studies. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 496) revealed a univocal instrument with one factor that explains 57.8% of the variance in career satisfaction scores.
Conclusion: The MNCSS is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring career satisfaction. Factor analysis of the combined data from three studies yielded one factor that measures the concept of career satisfaction.
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Alpha Nu
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Presentation
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Text-based Document
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Keywords:
Factor Analysis, Career Satisfaction, Instrument Development
Recommended Citation
Mariani, Bette A., "Development and psychometric testing of the Mariani Nursing Career Satisfaction Scale" (2013). INRC (Congress). 96.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/inrc/2013/presentations_2013/96
Conference Name
24th International Nursing Research Congress
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Sigma Theta Tau International
Conference Location
Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Year
2013
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Development and psychometric testing of the Mariani Nursing Career Satisfaction Scale
Prague, Czech Republic
Session presented on: Tuesday, July 23, 2013:
Purpose: The Mariani Nursing Career Satisfaction Scale (MNCSS) Research Instrument was developed as an integral part of a research study conducted to explore the influence of mentoring on career satisfaction of registered nurses. A review of the literature revealed no available measure of career satisfaction.
Methods: The MNCSS is a semantic differential of 16-opposite adjectives scales which was developed for participants to rate their feelings about their nursing career. The MNCSS was used in a pilot study and three major studies exploring career satisfaction of registered nurses. Validity, reliability, and exploratory factor analysis (FA) were done to explore the internal structure of the instrument.
Results: The newly developed instrument had a content validity index of .84 and Cronbach alpha internal consistency reliabilities of .93 to .96 across three major studies. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 496) revealed a univocal instrument with one factor that explains 57.8% of the variance in career satisfaction scores.
Conclusion: The MNCSS is a valid and reliable instrument for measuring career satisfaction. Factor analysis of the combined data from three studies yielded one factor that measures the concept of career satisfaction.