Development and psychometric testing of the occupational embeddedness scale for nurses

Objective To develop the Occupational Embeddedness Scale for Nurses and test its re liability and validity.Methods The original scale was designed according to document analysis,openlabel questionnaire and interview results.After 3 sampling tests,the first predicted sample (n=368) was conducted with item analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA),the second predicted sample (n=306) was conducted with EFA,and then the formal tested sample (n=372) was conducted with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA).Another sample of 55 nurses was tested and retested two weeks later.The intestine emendatory Turnover Intention Scale was used to test its criterion validity.Results The final scale had 18 items and 3 dimensions,including fit,link and Sacrifice.Occupational Embeddedness Scale revealed good model fit indices (x2/df =2.563,RMR=0.048,TLI=0.914,CFI=0.925).The total scores was negatively correlated with the Turnover Intention Scale scores.The Cronbach's α coefficients of the whole scale was 0.917,and range 0.800～0.834 for each dimension.The test-retest reliability was 0.890,and ranged 0.732～0.873 for each dimension.Conclusions It suggests that the Occupational Embeddedness Scale for Nursing has good reliability and validity,and can be used to assess the occupational embeddedness status of nursing in China. Key words: Nurses;  Occupational embeddedness;  Scale;  Reliability;  Validity