Job Satisfaction in the Home Health Care Context: Validating a Customized Instrument for Application‪.‬

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The purpose of this study is to present the development and validation process of a customized job satisfaction instrument within the home healthcare setting. During development, home healthcare agency directors selected items from preexisting scales to create a new 15-item instrument designed to measure job satisfaction, supervisory relationships, and job environment. The instrument's reliability and validity were examined using a two-step approach. First, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out with a sample of 398 aides, and three factors were identified. Second, confirmatory factor analysis was conducted with an independent sample of 328 aides using the three-factor solution that was selected from the EFA. The reliability estimates for the job satisfaction, supervisory relationships, and job environment scales were 0.84, 0.93, and 0.74, respectively.