Development of Workplace Support Scale for Nurses Re-Employed:

A Study of its Reliability and Validity

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of the Workplace Support Scale, which was designed to measure workplaces support sought by re-employed nurses in hospitals.
Methods: A self-bearer type questionnaire survey was conducted to 1,479 re-employed nurses in 141 hospitals. The original items of the scale were created from focus group and assessed by the Content Validity Index at the item level. Thereafter, factor analysis was performed. And the Cronbach's α coefficients were calculated.
Results: The following four factors comprising 20 items were identified from the factor analysis: work support, mental support, adaptation preparation support and educational support. The Cronbach's α coefficient for overall scale was .94.
Discussion: The result of analysis generally supported reliability and validity of the scale, as evidenced by its content and construct validity and Cronbach's α coefficient.