Validity and Reliability of the Arabic Version of the Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised Scale

Abstract

BackgroundIncivility in nursing education can negatively affect the academic achievement. As there is no tool in Arabic to assess incivility among nursing students, there is a need for a valid and reliable tool.PurposeThis study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the Incivility in Nursing Education- Revised (INE-R) survey.MethodThis cross-sectional study was conducted in four universities in Iraq using a convenience sampling strategy. A translated Arabic version of the INE-R was used to assess its validity and reliability.ResultsThree hundred eighty-nine surveys were included in the analysis. The contrast validity was confirmed by using Exploratory Factor Analysis. The internal consistency was tested using Cronbach’s alpha, which showed the result of 0.87.ConclusionThe Arabic version of the Incivility in Nursing Education- Revised is a valid and reliable scale. This scale can be used in Arab countries to assess incivility in nursing education.

Thoughts on Incivility: A Preliminary Study to Identify Uncivil Behavior in Indonesian Higher Education

“…The first objective of this study was to identify the uncivil behavior using PCA, which indicated that classroom incivility is multi-dimensional, with 22 items that were successfully validated. This study supports the majority of the uncivil behavior items from previous studies (e.g., Al-Jubouri et al, 2019;Bjorklund & Rehling, 2009;Chory & Offstein, 2017;Farrell et al, 2016;Mohammadipour et al, 2018), thus, confirming that general agreement exists regarding disrespectful behavior between the Western and Eastern worlds, especially in Indonesia. In addition to the dimensions of integrity violation (Osinski, 2003), the current study' scale supports a new dimension as an extension of the previous scale (e.g., Bjorklund & Rehling, 2010;Chory & Offstein, 2017;Farrell et al, 2016).…”

“…From a theoretical perspective, it is argued that perceived incivility is mainly related to the social and cultural contexts and can be perceived differently based on social values and norms (Eka & Chambers, 2019;Segrist et al, 2018). However, the findings of 22 items in the current study found a similar pattern that was consistent with the previous studies (e.g., Al-Jubouri et al, 2019;Bjorklund &Rehling, 2009;Chory & Offstein, 2017;Farrell et al, 2016). Although there is an extension of a new dimension from the previous studies (e.g., Bjorklund & Rehling, 2010;Chory & Offstein, 2017;Farrell et al, 2016), the distinction and perspectives of Indonesian versus western learning environment are relatively similar in identifying students' uncivil behavior in class.…”

Psychometric evaluation of the perceived nursing student's Incivility questionnaire

“…The results showed that the three factors extracted from the questionnaire accounted for more than 51.485% of the variance. The variance more than 50% indicates the appropriateness of factors (Al‐Jubouri et al., 2019). The three factors of violent behaviours, irresponsible behaviours and unsound behaviours and the explanation of the total variance with the instrument designer are in agreement.…”

“…In the similar study, this factor has been identified as high‐level uncivil behaviour (De Gagne et al., 2016). These items identified as the higher level of uncivil behaviours in the Arabic version of questionnaire (Al‐Jubouri et al., 2019). These actions were marked as the most incivility regardless of the culture of students.…”

“…These values were 0.95 for high‐level incivility and higher than 0.75 for low‐level incivility (De Gagne et al., 2016). The Cronbach's alpha for all items was 0.87 in the Arabic version of instrument (Al‐Jubouri et al., 2019).…”