Data for: R you ready? Using the R programme for statistical analysis and graphics
Description
Supplementary files for the "R you ready? Using the R programme for statistical analysis and graphics" consist of an R script and data needed to run the CFA analysis presented in the article. We wish to propose that the use of R should become more widespread in nursing research and in this article we offer: an overview of the capabilities of R; some examples of its application in our own work; and one practical example with the concomitant R coding in order that others interested in this specific method may use that coding and use our example as an exercise.
Files
Steps to reproduce
The dataset was originally used in a study by Snowden et al. (2015) to examine the construct validity of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short form (TEIQue-SF). Data were collected from 938 students of nursing, midwifery and computer science in two Scottish Universities. TEIQue-SF is a 30-item trait emotional intelligence measure introduced by Petrides (2009) who derived it from his larger 130-item based TEIQue questionnaire (Freudenthaler et al. 2008). Despite the reduction in the number of items it is still possible to identify four factors (well-being, sociability, self-control & emotionality) of emotional intelligence that can be measured by this questionnaire. The dataset contains information on gender of the participants, 30 items of the TEIQue-SF questionnaire with pre-calculated total TEIQue-SF score as well as scores for all four factors – i.e. well-being, sociability, self-control & emotionality. Snowden, A., Watson, R., Stenhouse, R. and Hale, C., 2015. Emotional Intelligence and Nurse Recruitment: Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire short form. Journal of advanced nursing, 71(12), pp.2936-2949.