Vallières, Frédérique, McAuliffe, Eilish, Hyland, Philip, Galligan, Marie and Ghee, Annette (2017) Measuring work engagement among community health workers in Sierra Leone: Validating the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale [La medición del compromiso con el trabajo en trabajadores sanitarios comunitarios de Sierra Leona: validación de la Escala Utrecht de Engagement]. Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology / Revistade Psicologiadel Trabajoydelas Organizaciones, 33 (1). pp. 41-46. ISSN 1576-5962
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Abstract
This study examines the concept of volunteer work engagement in a sample of 334 community health workers in Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. Structural equation modelling was used to validate both the 9-item and the 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9 and UWES-17, respectively). Results assessing the UWES-17 invalidated the three-factor structure within this cohort of community health workers, as high correlations were found between latent factors. Findings for the validity of the UWES-9 were largely consistent with those of the UWES-17. Model fit for the UWES-9 were generally equivalent for the one-factor, three-factor, and bifactor solutions, however the three-factor model was once again rejected due to high factor correlations. Based on these results, the current sample provides evidence that work engagement is best represented as a unidimensional construct in this context. Findings are considered alongside previous research to offer support for the utilization of the shortened UWES-9 in this context, as it appears to provide a good representation of work engagement and possess a parsimonious unidimensional scoring scheme.
Este estudio analiza el concepto de compromiso en el trabajo voluntario de una muestra de 224 trabajadores sanitarios comunitarios del distrito de Bonthe, Sierra Leona. Se utilizó el modelado de ecuaciones estructurales para validar la Escala Utrecht de Engagement, tanto la de 9 (UWES-9) como la de 17 (UWES-17) elementos. Los resultados de la evaluación de la UWES-17 invalidaron la estructura de tres factores en esta muestra de trabajadores sanitarios comunitarios, ya que se hallaron correlaciones elevadas entre los factores latentes. Los resultados de la validez de la UWES-9 mostraban gran congruencia con los de la UWES-17. El ajuste de modelo para la UWES-9 era en general equivalente para las soluciones de uno, tres y dos factores, aunque el modelo de tres factores fue una vez más rechazado por las elevadas correlaciones entre factores. A la vista de los resultados, esta muestra prueba que el compromiso con el trabajo se representa mejor como constructo unidimensional en este contexto. En la línea de la investigación precedente, se considera que estos resultados respaldan la utilización de la forma abreviada, UWES-9, en este contexto, dado que parece representar mejor el compromiso con el trabajo y dispone de un método unidimensional de puntuación parsimonioso.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Volunteer work engagement; Utrecth Work Engagement Scale; Community health workers; Sierra Leone; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology |
Item ID: | 11575 |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.rpto.2016.12.001 |
Depositing User: | Philip Hyland |
Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2019 17:36 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology / Revistade Psicologiadel Trabajoydelas Organizaciones |
Publisher: | Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/11575 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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