Building and Standardization a Scale of morale among Teachers and Nurses Working in the Palestinian Community

The study aimed to build a measure of morale, verify the validity and reliability, and standardize it on a sample of Palestinians. It also aimed to realize differences in morale according to gender, profession and years of experience. The descriptive method used. A random sample of (358) teachers and nurses of both sexes in the governmental public sector in the governorates of Gaza and its north in Palestine were selected. The researchers prepared and arbitrated the morale scale among a number of specialists, so that it consists in its final form of (21), items distributed evenly with the numbering being rotated on three dimensions: self-confidence, the relationship with colleagues and the work environment. The results find that the scale has a good degree of structural validity, as the correlation coefficients between the score of items, dimensions, and the total score of the scale. All items have a discriminatory validity in favor of the higher group at 0.01. In addition, the measure of morale characterized by a high degree of reliability using split half method and Cronbach's alpha. The results found statistically significant differences in morale according to gender in favor of females, and according to profession in favor of teachers, while there were no differences in morale according to the years of experience of the sample.