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Revista Digital de Investigación en Docencia Universitaria
versão On-line ISSN 2223-2516
Resumo
JUAREZ-GARCIA, Arturo; MERINO-SOTO, César e VILLAMAR SANCHEZ, Daniela. Shorter maybe better: Psychometric properties of the UWES-3 items for measuring engagement in university Mexican teachers. Rev. Digit. Invest. Docencia Univ. [online]. 2023, vol.17, n.2, e1623. Epub 01-Jul-2023. ISSN 2223-2516. http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/ridu.2023.1623.
Introduction:
Work engagement is a relevant positive psychological effect in the literature, and validity studies of the ultra-brief version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale are practically nonexistent in Latin America.
Objective:
to identify the psychometric properties of the ultra-brief version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-3) and to analyze its equivalence with the UWES-9 version in a sample of teachers from a public university in Mexico.
Method:
the final sample consisted of N=247 university teachers, who answered the 9-item and 3-item versions of the UWES and the Burnout Evaluation Questionnaire for Education Personnel (CESQT-PE) to estimate its discriminant validity.
Results:
The results confirmed very high correlations between both versions of the UWES (3-9) (r=>.82-.93), a unidimensional structure of the UWES- 3 with higher factor loadings (>.75), satisfactory internal consistency values (>.70) and high and similar correlations in the expected direction between both versions and the CESQT-PE (q=.02-.08).
Conclusions:
We conclude that there is equivalence of the UWES-3 and the UWES-9. The practical benefits of the ultra-brief version for the measurement of work engagement in university teachers are discussed.
Palavras-chave : Engagement; UWES; University teachers; Measurement Scales.