Development of the Proactive Behavior Scale for Mid-Career Nurses: Examination of the Content Validity of the Draft Scale Items

Abstract

Purpose: This study examines the content validity of draft items for a scale that measures proactive behavior in the organizational socialization of mid-career nurses (nurses who have worked as other hospitals than the one where they are currently employed).

Method: We administered anonymous questionnaire surveys to 14 nursing college faculty members to assess the content validity of the scale's 77 draft items. Respondents were asked to rate, on a four-point scale, the degree of association between the operational definition of "proactive behavior of mid-career nurses" and each of the draft items. Item-level content validity index (I-CVI) was calculated from the survey results (Survey 1). Items that did not meet the criterion of 0.78 were revised, and the survey was conducted again using the revised item proposals (Survey 2).

Results: In Survey 1, 48 items showed an I-CVI of 0.78 or higher. Items with an I-CVI less than 0.78 were corrected, and Survey 2 was conducted with 29 items. In Survey 2, 12 items showed an I-CVI of 0.78 or higher.

Discussion: Many of the items in Surveys 1 or 2 that showed an I-CVI index of 0.78 or higher were considered behaviors undertaken to resolve tasks in the process of mid-career nurses' organizational socialization. Therefore, items that showed an I-CVI index of 0.78 or higher in both surveys were considered to have content validity.