The Italian Version of the Short Supervisor Feedback Environment Scale: Evidence of Psychometric Properties
Elena Lo Piccolo, Marco Giovanni Mariani, Gerardo Petruzziello
The supervisor feedback environment is a key contextual factor shaping how employees interpret and use feedback in everyday work interactions. Although the short Supervisor Feedback Environment Scale has been widely used in organizational research, evidence on the reliability and validity of the Italian version is still limited. This study provides preliminary evidence on the psychometric properties of the Italian short Supervisor Feedback Environment Scale in a sample of 368 employees working in the Italian public administration. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a second-order structure, showing a better fit than a unidimensional solution. The scale showed satisfactory internal consistency, and construct validity was supported by theoretically coherent associations with work engagement, job satisfaction, employee well-being, feedback orientation, and perceived workload., findings support the reliability and validity of the Italian short Supervisor Feedback Environment Scale and suggest that it may represent a brief tool for research and assessment purposes in organizational settings.
Keywords
Feedback environment, Supervisor feedback, Scale validation, Confirmatory factor analysis, Italian version.
