Psychometric analyses of the short-form Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) in Italian Health Care Workers

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Pisanti ◽  
C. Violani ◽  
D. Lazzari
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Utrecht Work Engagement Scale ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Psychometric Analyses ◽  
Engagement Scale

scholarly journals Holistic Work Engagement pada Tenaga Kesehatan di Kota Jakarta Barat: Pengaruh Digital Quotient, Authentic Leadership, dan Perceived Organizational Support selama Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-278
Author(s):  
Adellia Anggun Trisnawati ◽  
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Kerin Sianto ◽  
Lady Aldli Seansyah ◽  
Nopriadi Saputra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Purpose: This study aimed to determine the impact of digital quotient, authentic leadership, and perceived organizational support on work engagement of employees who work in the health industry during this COVID-19 in West Jakarta. Research methodology: The methods in this research were quantitative and survey. We obtained primary data through the questionnaire distribution with 391 respondents of health care workers who work in West Jakarta. This study used multiple regression techniques as the data analysis technique. Results: The study results indicate that digital quotient, authentic leadership, and perceived organizational support influence work engagement. Limitations: Only digital quotient, authentic leadership, perceived organizational support, work engagement variables, and health care workers in West Jakarta were assessed in this research. Contribution: This study shows the level of work engagement, digital quotient, authentic leadership, perceived organizational support and how digital quotient, authentic leadership, and perceived organizational support affect work engagement. Employers or organizations can use this research to improve their employees' work engagement by noticing their employee's level of digital quotient and implementing authentic leadership and perceived organizational support.

scholarly journals Occupational stress and engagement in primary health care workers

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1580-1587
Author(s):  
Dezolina Franciele Cardin Cordioli ◽  
João Roberto Cordioli Junior ◽  
Claudia Eli Gazetta ◽  
Albertina Gomes da Silva ◽  
Luciano Garcia Lourenção
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Probabilistic Sample ◽  
Transversal Study

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate levels of occupational stress and work engagement among primary health care workers. Method: A descriptive, correlational and transversal study was carried out in a small municipality in the countryside of São Paulo, with a non-probabilistic sample of convenience, with 85 workers. Three self-applied instruments were used: one developed by researchers, containing sociodemographic variables; Work Stress Scale (WSS) and Utrech Work Engagement Scale (UWES). Results: Prevalence of women (72.6%), 40 years old or more (45.9%), 4 years and 4 months of mean working time in primary care. Thirty-one workers (36.5%) presented significant stress (scores ≥2.5). Work engagement showed a mean of 4.1 (±1.2) to 4.4 (±1.4), classified as high in all dimensions. Occupational stress and work engagement correlated negatively. Conclusion: Workers presented high levels of work engagement; more than one-third had significant occupational stress. Workers with high levels of occupational stress tend to have lower work engagement.

Psychometric Properties of the Hebrew Version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9)

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hadassah Littman-Ovadia ◽  
Cristian Balducci
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Utrecht Work Engagement Scale ◽  
Hebrew Version ◽  
Engagement Scale

Work engagement may be defined as a positive and fulfilling psychological state associated with both affective response and mental arousal. This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Hebrew version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-9) by using a sample of Israeli (N = 252) white-collar employees. We conducted a series of confirmatory factor analyses of the UWES-9 in addition to the customary reliability analyses and found that a three-factor solution of the UWES-9 best fit the data and confirmed the dimensions of vigor, dedication, and absorption associated with work engagement. The reliability coefficients of consistency were high. The validity of the UWES-9 was confirmed by its correlations with Job-Intrinsic and Job-Extrinsic Satisfaction (MSQ-SF; Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire Short Form). The Hebrew version of the UWES-9 administered to Israelis shares the same psychometric properties reported for the original Dutch version and suggests a transnational, translinguistic, and transcultural validity.

Bifactor and Item Response Theory Analyses of Health Care Workers’ Attitudes Toward HIV-Infected People

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Gabriele Prati ◽  
Luca Pietrantoni
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Bifactor Model ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Item Response Model ◽  
Response Theory ◽  
Care Workers

Abstract. Health care workers’ attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) can play an important role in the quality of life of PLWHA as well as in public health efforts in HIV prevention and treatment. The main aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of an instrument to measure health care workers’ attitudes toward PLWHA using bifactor and IRT analyses. We applied bifactor and Item Response Theory (IRT) analyses to questionnaire development, evaluation, and refinement. A sample of 836 Italian health care workers was recruited in 2013, including medical practitioners, nurses, health care assistants, social workers, and psychologists. We tested a hierarchical item response model (bifactor model) with model fit comparisons with one-dimensional and five-dimensional models. The bifactor model was found to provide the best fit to the observed data. The results were used to construct a 15-item short form. The test information function showed that the scale was slightly more precise at higher levels of negative attitudes. Finally, the differential item functioning (DIF) analysis revealed that the items did not function differently across gender or professional groups. The instrument was found to have good criterion validity with regard to discriminatory practices toward HIV-infected patients.

scholarly journals Health-Care Professionals Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Emotional Intelligence May Enhance Work Performance Traversing the Mediating Role of Work Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 4077
Author(s):  
Martin Sanchez-Gomez ◽  
Max Sadovyy ◽  
Edgar Breso
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Care Workers

Upon the eruption of COVID-19, frontline health-care workers confronted substantial workload and stress along with braving additional difficulties when performing at work. The main aim of this research was to assess the mediating role of work engagement in the direct impact of emotional intelligence on health-care professionals’ work performance. A cross-sectional study was conducted in several Spanish hospitals during the second half of 2020. A total of 1549 health-care workers (62.1% women; mean age 36.51 years) filled the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. Our findings demonstrated that work engagement plays a mediating effect between emotional intelligence and work performance, even when accounting for sociodemographic variables. Indeed, among the three constructs of engagement, vigor dimension (a1b1 = 0.09; CI: 0.06; 0.12; p < 0.01) emerges over dedication (a2b2 = 0.083; CI = 0.05, 0.1; p < 0.01) and absorption (a3b3 = 0.047; CI = 0.02, 0.07; p < 0.01) as the most decisive one. Herewith, it is apparent that professionals with a higher self-perception of emotional intelligence report stronger levels of engagement, thereby leading to greater performance overall. The present work evinces the necessity for proactively developing the emotional competencies of the health-care workforce, especially in high-emotional demand contexts.

Arbeitsengagement zur Messung von positiver beruflicher Beanspruchung im Lehrberuf – eine berufsübergreifende Validierung

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Anita Sandmeier ◽  
Debbie Mandel
Keyword(s):  
Work Engagement ◽  
Utrecht Work Engagement Scale ◽  
Deutschsprachige Version ◽  
Engagement Scale

Zusammenfassung. Die Forschung zu Beanspruchung im Lehrberuf ist nach wie vor stark auf negative Auswirkungen wie Stress, Erschöpfung und Burnout fokussiert. Um ein vollständiges Bild zu erhalten, müssen auch die positiven Aspekte von Beanspruchung analysiert werden. Dafür bietet sich ein Konstrukt an, das sich in der internationalen arbeits- und organisationspsychologischen Forschung in den vergangenen Jahren durchgesetzt und in verschiedenen Berufsfeldern und nationalen Kontexten bewährt hat: Arbeitsengagement, gemessen mit der Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES). Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert die deutschsprachige Version der 9-Item Version der UWES an einer Stichprobe von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern ( N = 162) im Vergleich mit Personen aus intellektuell-forschenden Berufen ( N = 195). Konfirmatorische Mehrgruppen-Faktoranalysen zeigten, dass die UWES-9 über beide Berufsgruppen hinweg messinvariant ist. Die latente Mittelwertsanalyse ergab, dass die Lehrerinnen und Lehrer in Bezug auf das Arbeitsengagement besser abschneiden als die Fachkräfte der anderen Gruppe. Dabei hängt das Arbeitsengagement in beiden Gruppen wie erwartet positiv mit affektivem organisationalem Commitment und negativ mit der Kündigungsabsicht zusammen, was die Validität der deutschen Version des Tests belegt. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Erkenntnisse wird am Schluss des Beitrags das Potenzial des Konstrukts für die Erforschung der positiven Beanspruchung im Lehrberuf diskutiert.

Organizational Factors and Health Care Workers' Physical Safety

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Lipscomb ◽  
Jeanne Geiger-Brown ◽  
Katherine McPhaul ◽  
Karen Calabro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Care Workers
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