Evidências de Validade da Versão Brasileira da Escala de Workaholism (DUWAS-16) e sua versão breve (DUWAS-10)

Ana Claudia Souza Vazquez; Clarissa Pinto Pizarro De Freitas; Andressa Cyrre; Claudio Simon Hutz; Wilmar B. Schaufeli

doi:10.15689/ap.2017.1701.08.13288

Evidências de Validade da Versão Brasileira da Escala de Workaholism (DUWAS-16) e sua versão breve (DUWAS-10)

Translated title of the contribution: Validity evidence of the Dutch work addiction scale - Brazilian version

Ana Claudia Souza Vazquez^*, Clarissa Pinto Pizarro De Freitas, Andressa Cyrre, Claudio Simon Hutz, Wilmar B. Schaufeli

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Work and Organizational Psychology: Occupational Health Psychology

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Abstract

Workaholism is characterized by a state of mind in which professionals work excessively and compulsively. This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of two versions of the Dutch Work Addiction Scale (DUWAS-16 and DUWAS-10) for the Brazilian context. A total of 571 workers, 65.5% female, with a mean age of 36.4 years (SD = 10.8) participated in the study. The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of DUWAS-16 showed that the scale can be used by adopting a structure of two oblique factors (Working Excessively and Working Compulsively), or a one-dimensional structure (Addiction). The CFA of the DUWAS-10 reduced version suggests that either the one-dimensional structure (Addiction) or two oblique factors (Working Excessively and Working Compulsively) are adequate. The results indicated that DUWAS-10 can be considered superior to DUWAS-16 to evaluate the dimensions of workaholism in the Brazilian context.

Translated title of the contribution	Validity evidence of the Dutch work addiction scale - Brazilian version
Original language	Portuguese
Pages (from-to)	69-78
Number of pages	10
Journal	Avaliacao Psicologica
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15689/ap.2017.1701.08.13288
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2018

Keywords

Addiction to work
Validity evidence
Psychological evaluation
professional orientation
visual deficieny
psychometry
test construction

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