Assessment of health workers´ engagement in Uruguay using the Utrecht work engagement scale (UWES)
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https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v13i2.1888Keywords:
work engagement, Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, UWES, psychometric propertiesAbstract
The aim of this paper was to examine the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) in its 17-item version for the assessment of health workers in Uruguay. The sample consisted of 1,324 workers of both sexes (63.7% of women) from different health institutions, public (45.7%) and private (54.3%), in Montevideo and from the rest of the country (64.4% and 35.6% respectively). The internal consistency analyzes, employing Cronbach's alpha coefficient, reveal satisfactory levels of internal consistency for the total scale and the three factors, and reinforce the evidence of weakness of two items on the scale. The factorial structure analyzes by confirmatory factor analysis show an adequate fit of the trifactorial model to the data, although the high correlation between the latent factors could indicate that the unifactorial model may also be acceptable. Evidence from this study suggests that the Spanish version of the UWES-17 may be a valid and reliable instrument for the measurement of engagement and its three factors in health workers in Uruguay.
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Schaufeli, W. B. y Bakker, A. B. (2001). Werk en welbevinden: Naar een positieve benadering in de Arbeids-en Gezondheidspsychologie [Work and well-being: towards a positive approach in Occupational Health Psychology]. Gedrag & Organisatie, 14, 229–253.
Schaufeli, W. B. y Bakker, A. B. (2004). Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Preliminary manual (1.1). Utrecht: Occupational Health Psychology Unit, Utrecht University.
Schaufeli, W. B., Bakker, A. B. y Salanova, M. (2006). The Measurement of Work Engagement With a Short Questionnaire. Educational & Psychological Measurement, 66(4), 701–716. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164405282471
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Schaufeli, W. B., Shimazu, A., Hakanen, J., Salanova, M. y De Witte, H. (2017). An Ultra-Short Measure for Work Engagement. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000430
Seppälä, P., Mauno, S., Feldt, T., Hakanen, J., Kinnunen, U., Schaufeli, W. y Tolvanen, A. (2009). The Construct Validity of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale: Multisample and Longitudinal Evidence. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10(459).
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Storm, K. y Rothmann, S. (2003). A psychometric analysis of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale in the South African police service. SA Journal of Industrial Psychology, 29(4). https://doi.org/10.4102/sajip.v29i4.129
Sulaiman, W. S. W. y Zahoni, N. A. (2016). Validation of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) in the Malaysian Context. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 6(9), 672–676.
Ugwu, F. O. (2013). Work Engagement in Nigeria: Adaptation of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale for Nigerian Samples. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Academic Research, 1(3), 16–26.
Vallières, F., McAuliffe, E., Hyland, P., Galligan, M. y Ghee, A. (2017). Measuring work engagement among community health workers in Sierra Leone: Validating the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale. Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones, 33(1), 41–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpto.2016.12.001
Van Bogaert, P., Wounters, K., Willems, R., Mondelaers, M. y Clarke, S. (2013). Work engagement supports nurse workforce stability and quality of care: Nursing team-level analysis in psychiatric hospitals. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 20(8), 679–686. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12004
Viljevac, A., Cooper Thomas, H. D. y Anderson, D. (2012). An investigation into the validity of two measures of work engagement. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(17), 3692–3709. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.639542
Xanthopoulou, D., Bakker, A. B., Kantas, A. y Demerouti, E. (2012). Measuring burnout and work engagement: Factor structure, invariance, and latent mean differences across Greece and the Netherlands. Journal of Business Science and Applied Management, 7(2), 40–52.
Zecca, G., Györkös, C., Becker, J., Massoudi, K., de Bruin, G. P. y Rossier, J. (2015). Validation of the French Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and its relationship with personality traits and impulsivity. Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, 65(1), 19–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2014.10.003
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Gómez Garbero, L., Labarthe, J., Ferreira-Umpiérrez, A., & Chiminelli-Tomás, V. (2019). Assessment of health workers´ engagement in Uruguay using the Utrecht work engagement scale (UWES). Ciencias Psicológicas, 13(2), 305–316. https://doi.org/10.22235/cp.v13i2.1888
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