Confirmatory factor analysis of leadership questionnaire for nursing managers / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the structure of leadership questionnaire for nursing managers.Methods A total of 184 head nurses in Anhui were investigated with the leadership questionnaire for nursing managers.SPSS13.0 and AMOS17.0 software were used to test the reliability and validity.Results The correlations between the items and total scale ranged from 0.431-0.687(P＜0.05 or P＜0.01) and the Cronbach' sα was 0.841.Single factor analysis results indicated that all factor loadings to their items were 0.542-0.782(P＜0.05).The multiple factor analysis results showed that first-order factors model and second-order factors model of leadership for nursing managers fitted well.Conclusion The leadership questionnaire for nursing managers is proved to have good psychometric characteristics and can be used to assess the leadership of nursing managers.