Measurement of Job Satisfaction in Nursing School Teachers: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Job Satisfaction Scale Based on the Stamps Scale

Teachers in nursing schools, unlike those in nursing faculties in universit ies, have to play mult iple roles, which causes frequent burnout and a potential turnover problem. A measure of job satisfaction is thus needed to obtain clear and subjective perceptions of the work environment and to develop better working conditions. We transformed the Revised Attitude Scale Items to Measure Occupational Satisfaction of Hospital Nurses (Stamps, P. L., et al., 1978; Ozaki, F. & Tadamasa, T., 1988) for clin ical nurses into a scale for nursing teachers by shortening and rewording 30 selected items. The dimensional structure of the original six-factor model was investigated by using three samples of Japanese nursing teachers of different ages (n = 303; 30s =73, 40s=152, over 50=78), which resulted in the elimination of the “Task” factor from the hypothesized six-factor structure. The revised five-factor model was retained although its fit toa cross-validated sample was not satisfactory. However, in an exploratory analysis, we examined the non-invariance of all parameters and foundthat two itemswere not invariant across the groups. Based on the results of the analysis,we offered several suggestions to modify items in the scale for practical use.