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Challenges of Occupational Safety Specialists Scale: A Scale Development Study

Yıl 2019, Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2, 76 - 84, 10.08.2019
https://doi.org/10.35365/ctjpp.19.1.09

Öz

The object of this study was to develop challenges of occupational safety specialists scale for Turkish sample. The universe of this research is occupational safety specialists who works in private sector. Scale consist of two parts that were the main challenges and organizational challenges part. 332 participants responded main challenges part and 314 participants responded organizational challenges part. The results of the Exploratory Factor Analysis ( EFA) and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) showed that organizational challenges part
have to be assessed as a separate scale from main challenges part. 6 factor was obtained for main challenges with 28 items which were named as ‘insufficient awareness of employees’ (13 items), ‘providing lack of resources’ (3 items), ‘ignorance of employees’ (3 items), ‘unwillingness of employees to participation’ (3 items), ‘legislative challenges’(3 items) and ‘law based challenges’ (3 items). Additionally, 1 factor was obtained for organizational challenges part with 6 items. As a result, psychometrics specifics of both main challenges scale and organizational challenges scale showed that scales were valid and reliable for Turkish sample.
  

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil İngilizce
Konular Psikoloji
Bölüm Araştırma Makaleleri
Yazarlar

Şeyhmus Aksoy

Nihal Mamatoğlu

Yayımlanma Tarihi 10 Ağustos 2019
Kabul Tarihi 26 Temmuz 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı Yıl 2019 Cilt: 1 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA Aksoy, Ş., & Mamatoğlu, N. (2019). Challenges of Occupational Safety Specialists Scale: A Scale Development Study. Kıbrıs Türk Psikiyatri Ve Psikoloji Dergisi, 1(2), 76-84. https://doi.org/10.35365/ctjpp.19.1.09