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Nursing Students' Perceptions Of Clinical Teachers' Use Of Empowering Teaching Behaviours: Instrument Psychometrics And Application, Yolanda Babenko-Mould, Carrolll Iwasiw, Mary-Anne Andrusyszyn, Heather Laschinger, Wayne Weston

Mary-Anne Andrusyszyn

The authors present findings of 2nd year nursing students’ (N = 352) perceptions of their clinical teachers’ use of empowering teaching behaviours (ETB) and to highlight steps undertaken to establish psychometric properties of the Empowering Teaching Behaviours Questionnaire – Student (ETBQ-S). The authors identify a) the process involved in the adoption of the ETBQ-S, b) ETBQ-S validity procedures completed prior to instrument implementation, c) results of nursing students’ responses to the ETBQ-S, d) criterion validity, and e) ETBQ-S confirmatory factor analysis findings conducted after study completion. The ETBQ-S reliably measures five facets of empowering actions that clinical teachers can employ …