Reliability and validity of the Korean 12‐item Perception of Aggression Scale

Abstract

What is known on the subject?• The importance of and interest in nurses' attitudes towards and subjective experience with workplace violence in clinical settings is increasing.• The prevalence of patient-perpetrated violence against Korean nurses in hospital settings is highly prevalent.• Only few instruments are available to measure the nurses' perception of patient aggression in Korea. What the paper adds to existing knowledge?• This is the first study to assess the linguistic and psychometric reliability and validity of an instrument that evaluates the attitude of Korean nursing staff towards patient-perpetrated workplace violence. What are the implications for practice?• This valid and reliable instrument could be used to assess and monitor the nurses' attitudes towards aggressive tendencies in the workplace.• The results could contribute to the development of relevant interventions for coping with violence by patients towards nursing staff and the implementation of practical training to cultivate healthy perceptions towards patients to foster therapeutic nurse-patient relationships.

Post-traumatic responses to workplace violence among nursing professionals: a collaborative and comparative study in South Korea and Hong Kong

“…First, our findings showed that the coping styles of South Korean nurses may be related to underestimating or not recognizing the problem of violence. This result supports previous studies showing that nurses with a greater perception of coping with workplace violence were found to be more successful in their struggle with violence [ 12 , 13 , 28 , 37 , 62 , 63 ]. Therefore, workplace violence training programs for identifying the patterns of the workplace violence process can help to improve nurses’ coping styles [ 12 , 13 , 28 , 37 , 62 , 63 ].…”

“…A higher score indicates a more positive appraisal for aggression by a patient (range 12–60). Cronbach’s α coefficients for the dysfunctional/undesirable phenomenon, functional/comprehensible phenomenon, and protective measure were between .76 and .83 in Wong and Chien [ 40 ] and .76 and .92 in Nam et al [ 37 ], whereas they were .84 and .90 in our study.…”

“…Nurses’ attitudes of aggression were measured using the Perception of Aggression Scale (POAS) [ 37 , 38 ]. The POAS consists of 12 items and comprises three subscales (i.e., dysfunctional/undesirable phenomenon, functional/comprehensible phenomenon, and protective measure) [ 37 – 40 ]. Each item was measured on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = “strongly disagree” and 5 = “strongly agree”).…”

Post-traumatic responses to workplace violence among nursing professionals: A collaborative and comparative study in South Korea and Hong Kong

“…A higher score indicates a more positive appraisal for aggression by a patient (range 12-60). Cronbach's α coe cients for the dysfunctional/undesirable phenomenon, functional/comprehensible phenomenon and the protective measure were between .76 and .83 in Wong and Chien [25] and .76 and .92 in Nam et al [22], while they were .84 and .90 in our study.…”

“…Nurses' attitudes of aggression were measured using the Perception of Aggression Scale (POAS) [22,23]. The POAS consists of 12 items and comprises three subscales (i.e., dysfunctional/undesirable phenomenon, functional/comprehensible phenomenon, and protective measure) [22][23][24][25]. Each item was measured on a ve-point Likert scale (1 = "strongly disagree" and 5 = "strongly agree").…”