Analysis of reliability and validity of the core competence scale A for military Personnel / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To analyze the reliability and validity of the core competence scale A for military personnel.Methods Three thousand and five hundred healthy soldiers volunteered to complete the core competence scale A for military personnel,and data were analyzed by AMOS7.0 and SPSS16.0 program.Results The confirmatory factor analysis for structure validity of all factors showed that 11 items with higher cross loading should be deleted according to its modified index,thus the revised scale was composed of 7 factors,21 competence components,65 items and one added lie subscale.Furthermore,the theoretical model of the scale was supported by the sample data,and the fit indexes,uch as GFI,AGFI,NFI and CFI of total scale,were all over 0.9,and RMSEA was lower than 0.08.In addition,the standardized factor loadings of all competence components were 0.393-0.791(P