A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Professional Opinion Scale: A Values Assessment Instrument  

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Abbott, Ann A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Research on Social Work Practice vol. 13 no. 5 (Sep. 2003), page 641-666.
Topik: social work values; Professional Opinion Scale; values scale; confirmatory factor analysis
Fulltext: 641RSWP135.pdf (113.85KB)

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Objective: The objective of this study was to reaffirm, using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), the four value subscales (respect for basic rights, sense of social responsibility, commitment to individual freedom, and support of self determination) identified in the initial exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the Professional Opinion Scale (POS). Method: The CFA reported here suggests that four items included in the original POS be repositioned, and eight items be removed, resulting in a 32-item updated version of the POS. Results: Af inal model, incorporating correlations of disturbances or errors between four pairs of similarly worded items, resulted in the best fit model. Conclusion: Although the final CFA does not support the entirety of the four factors identified by EFA, the resulting version of the POS, supported by goodness of fit indices, does,support the four value subscales with minor modifications.

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