中華心理衛生協會

Purpose: In order to raise the willingness and participation of interviewees in research on degree of job involvement in the Taiwan's nurses, this study aims to find out an adequate and brief scale, in which the Kanungo's 10-item scale has been reviewed and reconstructed. Methods: A total of 1, 154 nursing staff from both public and private hospitals were studied. Based on the Kanungo's 10-item scale, exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were performed respectively. Organizational commitment and job satisfaction of nursing staff were used as criteria to test the validity of this scale. Results: A 4-item short form job involvement scale is extracted from the original 10-item scale. This new short form job involvement scale has a good model fit index and criterion-related validity, with construct reliability as 0.84 and average variance extracted as 0.69. Conclusions: With the new 4-item job involvement scale which not only provides a similar performance and significance as the original 10-item scale, but also a better average variance extracted, this research provides researchers a convenient tool to measure the level of job involvement among nursing staff in the future. Follow-up research and discussion is deserved.