How Factor Analysis Results May Change Due to Country Context

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 598-607

  Brzyski, Piotr ^a   Kózka, Maria ^b   Squires, Allison ^c   Brzostek, Tomasz ^b  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services research; nurses; PES NWI; Poland; survey research; work environments

Indexed keywords

CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; NURSING; OCCUPATION; POLAND; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGISTERED NURSE; SURGERY; THEORETICAL MODEL; VALIDITY; VARIMAX ROTATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; PUBLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; POLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSLATIONS; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84990821397     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12249     Document Type: Article

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