title: Measuring Asian nurses' organizational commitment: a critical analysis of the psychometric properties of two organizational commitment instruments.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze and compare the psychometric properties and cultural attributes of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire and the Organizational Commitment Scale to determine their appropriateness for measuring commitment of Asian nurses, the biggest portion of international nurses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire was cross-culturally cross-validated when compared with the Organizational Commitment Scale. Both instruments were not tested on Asian nurses. More studies are needed to validate the cultural properties of the Organizational Commitment Scale.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Healthcare administrators can use culturally validated instruments, which concern cultural context, including languages and cultural values, to understand Asian nurses' organizational commitment and further lower turnover behavior among them.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology at Chiayi Campus, Chiayi, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shwu-Ru
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Liou
authors.forename: Hsiu-Min
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Tsai
authors.forename: Ching-Yu
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D064700:Nurses, International / Q000523:psychology*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*