The Utrecht work engagement scale for students (UWES-9S): Factorial validity, reliability, and measurement invariance in a chilean sample of undergraduate university students

Marcos A. Carmona-Halty; Wilmar B. Schaufeli; Marisa Salanova

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01017

The Utrecht work engagement scale for students (UWES-9S): Factorial validity, reliability, and measurement invariance in a chilean sample of undergraduate university students

Marcos A. Carmona-Halty^*
, Wilmar B. Schaufeli
, Marisa Salanova

^*Corresponding author for this work

Work and Organizational Psychology: Occupational Health Psychology

Universidad de Tarapacá
Jaume I University

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This brief report examines the within-network construct validity of the UWES-9S in a convenience sample of 1502 Chilean students (52% were female) ranging between 18 and 25 years old. The results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a solution with three related factors that fit significantly better than a one-factor solution. The three subscales (i.e., vigor, dedication, and absorption) and the overall UWES-9S showed satisfactory internal consistency. The results of multiple-group confirmatory factor analysis supported gender invariance. Overall, the UWES-9S was found to be a reliable and valid scale to assess academic engagement in Chilean undergraduate university students.

Original language	English
Article number	01017
Number of pages	5
Journal	Frontiers in Psychology
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01017
Publication status	Published - 30 Apr 2019

Keywords

Academic engagement
Invariance across gender
Psychometric analyses
University students
UWES

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The Utrecht work engagement scale for students (UWES-9S): Factorial validity, reliability, and measurement invariance in a chilean sample of undergraduate university students. / Carmona-Halty, Marcos A.; Schaufeli, Wilmar B.; Salanova, Marisa.
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