Quiet Quitting Scale: Adaptation and Validation for the Portuguese Nursing Context

Area of Science:

• Nursing and Healthcare Management
• Organizational Psychology
• Psychometrics

Background:

• Modern work environments and increased demands on nurses have led to phenomena like quiet quitting.
• Quiet quitting signifies shifts in professional engagement and nurses' well-being management.

Purpose of the Study:

• To translate and culturally adapt the Quiet Quitting Scale for European Portuguese.
• To validate the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version (QQS-PT) in a nursing population.

Main Methods:

• Cross-sectional validation study adhering to COSMIN guidelines.
• Translation, cultural adaptation, expert review, and pretesting.
• Psychometric evaluation using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and reliability analyses on 347 nurses.

Main Results:

• The QQS-PT retained the original three-factor structure: Detachment/Disinterest, Lack of Initiative, and Lack of Motivation.
• Satisfactory model fit indices and excellent overall internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.918, McDonald's ω = 0.922).
• Strong evidence for construct validity, including convergent and discriminant validity.

Conclusions:

• The QQS-PT is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing quiet quitting among nurses in Portugal.
• This validated scale offers valuable insights for research and management of professional engagement and well-being in healthcare.
• The QQS-PT is a brief, psychometrically sound tool for healthcare contexts.