Healthy and Resiliente Schools Scale: Argentine Evidence of Construct Validty, Internal Structure and Reliability
Abstract
Healthy and resilient organizations are those that implement healthy resources and practices, have healthy employees, and achieve positive results. This construct is scarcely explored in the academic field. For this reason, this research was aimed at developing a scale that allows to measure the construct in educational organizations. An instrumental cross-sectional study was carried out in two phases. Phase I aimed to explore the discriminative capacity of the items and to conform the preliminary version of the instrument. Phase II aimed to examine the factorial structure and reliability of the scale. Two non-probabilistic samples of 104 teachers (Phase I) and 242 teachers (Phase II) from the city of Rafaela were studied. A cross-sectional instrumental study was carried out. A non-probabilistic sample of 242 teachers was studied. A solution of five oblique factors that explain 69.75% of common variance was obtained. Reliability was satisfactory (ω= .90). Positive correlations were found with job satisfaction and organizational commitment (r > .55, p <.001). Future research should analyze the psychometric properties of this scale in other samples and cultures in order to providing new evidence of validity of the instrument developed here.
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