Exploring the psychometric properties of the newly-developed Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale

The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument: the Undergraduate Nursing Student Academic Satisfaction Scale (UNSASS). A nonprobability, convenience sample of313 undergraduate nursing students from all four levels of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) program completed the survey. Face and content validity was determined by a panel of undergraduate nursing students. Exploratory factor analysis was used to determine the construct validity and resulted in four factors (in-class teaching; clinical teaching; the program; and support and resources) which defined undergraduate nursing student satisfaction and accounted for 50% of the variance. The UNSASS was found to have excellent internal consistency reliability with a Cronbach's alpha of .92 for the In-Class Teaching factor, .91 for Clinical Teaching, .91 for The Program, .74 for the Support and Resources and .96 for the entire scale. The test-retest coefficient ranged from .70 to .86.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.Sc.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nursing

Grantor

University of Windsor

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Dennison, Susan

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Maher El-Masri
• Sharon McMahon

Contributors dc:contributor

• olsenc@uwindsor.ca

Licence

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_CA

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14776/6897

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uwindsor.scholaris.ca:20.500.14776/6897