Korean J Health Promot.  2017 Dec;17(4):275-281. 10.15384/kjhp.2017.17.4.275.

Validity and Reliability of the Korean Version of Empowering Leadership Questionnaire

• Kim EK
• Kim SY
• Jung MS
• Kim JK
• You SJ

• KMID: 2399338
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.15384/kjhp.2017.17.4.275

Abstract

BACKGROUND
The manager's empowering leadership has been reported to have a positive impact on employees' psychological empowerment, motivation, creativity, and increase commitment and turnover intentions. However, there is a lack of Korean version of empowering leadership tools that have been verified for validity and reliability, so that they can be applied to Korean nursing organizations. The aim of this study was to develop the Korean version of Empowering Leadership Questionnaire (K-ELQ) and to examine its' psychometric properties.
METHODS
Translation of the K-ELQ was validated through forward-backward translation. Participants were 322 staff nurses working in four general hospitals in South Korea. To test reliability and validity, content validity index, Cronbach's alpha, Pearson's correlation, confirmatory factor analysis were used.
RESULTS
The K-ELQ consisted of 34 items to evaluate empowering leadership of nursing managers. Construct validity of K-ELQ was verified by confirmatory factor analysis (CMIN/DF=2.72, Root Mean square Residual=0.03, Goodness of Fit Index=0.91, Normal Fit Index=0.87). Cronbach's alpha was 0.98. Criterion validity compared to the psychological empowerment of nurses showed significant correlation (r=0.19, P=0.001).
CONCLUSIONS
The K-ELQ is an appropriate instrument to measure empowering leadership of nursing managers. Further studies are needed to utilize K-ELQ in leadership education and to identify related factors of empowering leadership.

Keyword

Power; Leadership; Validation studies; Nurses

MeSH Terms

Creativity
Education
Hospitals, General
Intention
Korea
Leadership*
Motivation
Nursing
Power (Psychology)
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results*

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