SYMPTOM CORRELATES AND FACTOR STRUCTURE OF THE HEALTH-PROFESSIONS STRESS INVENTORY

Generalizability, psychological symptom correlates, and the factor str ucture of the Health Professions Stress Inventory were assessed with a sample of 92 geriatric nurses. The inventory was designed to measure the sources and frequency of stress among nurses, physicians, and phar macists; little is known, however, of the extent to which scores corre late with psychological symptoms or of the underlying dimensions of st ress measured. Analyses showed high correspondence between responses o f the geriatric nurses and the normative nurses as measured by mean va lues and Cronbach alpha. Factor analysis of the intercorrelations amon g items yielded 4 factors contributing to work-related stress, i.e., L ack of Perceived Enrichment Potential, Patient Care, Interpersonal Con flict, and Family Responsibility Conflict. Scores on the inventory cor related significantly with those of all SCL-90-R scales.