Testing and verifying nursing theory by confirmatory factor analysis

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1163-1172

  Kääriäinen, Maria ^a   Kanste, Outi ^b   Elo, Satu ^a   Pölkki, Tarja ^a   Miettunen, Jouko ^a   Kyngäs, Helvi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Oulu Arc Subregion ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Nursing theory; Statistical analysis; Theory testing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING RESEARCH; NURSING THEORY;

EID: 79954476188     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05561.x     Document Type: Article

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