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Abstract
Background: Ethics is a founding component of the nursing profession; however, nurses sometimes find it difficult to constantly adhere to the required ethical standards. There is limited knowledge about the factors that cause a committed nurse to violate standards; moral disengagement, originally developed by Bandura, is an essential variable to consider.
Research objectives: This study aimed at developing and validating a nursing moral disengagement scale and investigated how moral disengagement is associated with counterproductive and citizenship behaviour at work.
Research design: The research comprised a qualitative study and a quantitative study, combining a crossvalidation approach and a structural equation model.
Participants and research context: A total of 60 Italian nurses (63% female) involved in clinical work and enrolled as students in a postgraduate master’s programme took part in the qualitative study. In 2012, the researchers recruited 434 nurses (76% female) from different Italian hospitals using a convenience
sampling method to take part in the quantitative study.
Ethical considerations: All the organisations involved and the university gave ethical approval; all respondents participated on a voluntary basis and did not receive any form of compensation.
Findings: The nursing moral disengagement scale comprised a total of 22 items. Results attested the mono-dimensionality of the scale and its good psychometric properties. In addition, results highlighted a significant association between moral disengagement and both counterproductive and citizenship behaviours.
Research objectives: This study aimed at developing and validating a nursing moral disengagement scale and investigated how moral disengagement is associated with counterproductive and citizenship behaviour at work.
Research design: The research comprised a qualitative study and a quantitative study, combining a crossvalidation approach and a structural equation model.
Participants and research context: A total of 60 Italian nurses (63% female) involved in clinical work and enrolled as students in a postgraduate master’s programme took part in the qualitative study. In 2012, the researchers recruited 434 nurses (76% female) from different Italian hospitals using a convenience
sampling method to take part in the quantitative study.
Ethical considerations: All the organisations involved and the university gave ethical approval; all respondents participated on a voluntary basis and did not receive any form of compensation.
Findings: The nursing moral disengagement scale comprised a total of 22 items. Results attested the mono-dimensionality of the scale and its good psychometric properties. In addition, results highlighted a significant association between moral disengagement and both counterproductive and citizenship behaviours.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 547-564 |
| Journal | Nursing Ethics |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 23 Apr 2015 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2016 |
Keywords
- Citizenship behaviour
- counterproductive work behaviour
- moral disengagement
- stress
- validation
Research output
- 29 Citations (Scopus)
- 1 Article
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