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The development of a measure of job satisfaction for use in monitoring the morale of community nurses in four trusts
Author(s) -
Traynor Michael,
Wade Barbara
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18010127.x
Subject(s) - varimax rotation , job satisfaction , workload , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , inclusion (mineral) , consistency (knowledge bases) , sample (material) , nursing , internal consistency , applied psychology , patient satisfaction , medicine , social psychology , cronbach's alpha , clinical psychology , psychometrics , management , computer science , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , chromatography , economics
The development of the Measure of Job Satisfaction (MJS) for use in a longitudinal study of the morale of community nurses in four trusts is described The review of previous studies focuses on the use of principal component analysis or factor analysis in the development of measures The MJS was developed from a bank of items culled from the literature and from discussions with key informants It was mailed to a one in three sample of 723 members of the community nursing forums of the Royal College of Nursing A 72% response rate was obtained from those eligible for inclusion Principal component analysis with varimax rotation led to the identification of five dimensions of job satisfaction, Personal Satisfaction, Satisfaction with Workload, Satisfaction with Professional Support, Satisfaction with Pay and Prospects and Satisfaction with Training These factors form the basis of five subscales of satisfaction which summate to give an Overall Job Satisfaction score Internal consistency, test‐retest reliability, concurrent and discriminatory validity were assessed and were found to be satisfactory The factor structure was replicated using data obtained from the first three of the community trusts involved in the main study The limitations of the study and issues which require further exploration are identified and discussed