Shorter maybe better: Psychometric properties of the UWES-3 items for measuring engagement in university Mexican teachers

• Autores: Juárez García, Arturo, Merino-Soto, César, Villamar Sánchez, Daniela
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Lenguaje: español; inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1623
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upc.edu.pe/index.php/docencia/article/view/1623
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Entusiasmo no trabalho; UWES; Professores universitários; Escalas de medição; Entusiasmo laboral; Docentes universitarios; Escalas de medición; Engagement; University teachers; Measurement Scales

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.