The derivation of a brief Student Nurse Stress Index

摘要: The lack of an adequate measure perceived sources stress for student nurses led to the construction Student Nurse Stress Index (SNSI). Responses from 235 first-year 35 items Beck and Srivastava Inventory (Beck, Srivastava, 1991), 15 new items, were subjected exploratory factor analysis using principal components oblimin rotation. A reliable 22-variable solution with a simple oblique structure including Academic load, Clinical sources, Interface worries, Personal problems factors was obtained in this initial sample, confirmed at level further independent validation sample 188 students. Confirmatory established four-factor model first but required that three variables load onto more than one factor. This complex data total invariance loadings covarianc...