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Published in: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 1/2021

Open Access 01-12-2021 | Care | Research

The supportive supervisory scale: psychometric properties in Chinese health care aides samples

Authors: Li Tian, Haixia Li, Bei Dong, Congyan Xie, Hong Wang, Lu Lin

Published in: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | Issue 1/2021

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Abstract

Objective

To sinicize the Supportive Supervisory Scale (SSS) and analyze the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of SSS (SSS-C).

Methods

The SSS (the original English version) was firstly sinicized and adjusted, then its psychometric properties were examined in 300 health care aides from four long-term care (LTC) facilities. SPSS 22.0 was used to process the data and calculate the reliability and validity.

Results

The 15-item SSS-C had satisfactory internal consistency (Cronbach’s α coefficient = 0.852), split half reliability (Spearman-Brown coefficient = 0.834) and test–retest reliability (Pearson correlation coefficient = 0.784), and three factors were extracted. If the four items with their communality < 0.4 were deleted, the remaining 11 items could explain 55.654% of the total variance. The discriminant validity of the SSS-C varied significantly between sites.

Conclusions

The Chinese version of SSS can be used to effectively measure the supervisory support of the nurses within the LTC settings.
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Metadata
Title
The supportive supervisory scale: psychometric properties in Chinese health care aides samples
Authors
Li Tian
Haixia Li
Bei Dong
Congyan Xie
Hong Wang
Lu Lin
Publication date
01-12-2021
Publisher
BioMed Central
Keyword
Care
Published in
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes / Issue 1/2021
Electronic ISSN: 1477-7525
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01706-y

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