김은경1, 김세영2, 정면숙3, 김종경4, 유선주5

1충북대학교 간호학과, 2창원대학교 간호학과, 3경상대학교 간호대학 건강과학연구원, 4단국대학교 간호대학, 5목포대학교 간호학과

Background: The manager's empowering leadership has
been reported to have a positive impact on employees'
psychological empowerment, motivation, creativity, and
increase commitment and turnover intentions.
However, there is a lack of Korean version of empowering
leadership tools that have been verified for validity
and reliability, so that they can be applied to Korean nursing
organizations. The aim of this study was to develop
the Korean version of Empowering Leadership Questionnaire
(K-ELQ) and to examine its’ psychometric
properties.
Methods: Translation of the K-ELQ was validated through
forward-backward translation. Participants were 322
staff nurses working in four general hospitals in South Korea.
To test reliability and validity, content validity index,
Cronbach’s alpha, Pearson’s correlation, confirmatory factor
analysis were used.
Results: The K-ELQ consisted of 34 items to evaluate
empowering leadership of nursing managers. Construct
validity of K-ELQ was verified by confirmatory factor analysis
(CMIN/DF=2.72, Root Mean square Residual=
0.03, Goodness of Fit Index=0.91, Normal Fit Index=0.87).
Cronbach’s alpha was 0.98. Criterion validity
compared to the psychological empowerment of nurses
showed significant correlation (r=0.19, P=0.001).
Conclusions: The K-ELQ is an appropriate instrument to
measure empowering leadership of nursing
managers. Further studies are needed to utilize K-ELQ in
leadership education and to identify related factors
of empowering leadership.
Korean J Health Promot 2017;17(4):275-281
Keywords: Power, Leadership, Validation studies, Nurses