Sinval Jorge, Pasian Sonia, Queirós Cristina, Marôco João
Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Front Psychol. 2018 Mar 20;9:353. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00353. eCollection 2018.
The aim of this paper is to present a revision of international versions of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale and to describe the psychometric properties of a Portuguese version of the UWES-9 developed simultaneously for Brazil and Portugal, the validity evidence related with the internal structure, namely, Dimensionality, measurement invariance between Brazil and Portugal, and Reliability of the scores. This is the first UWES version developed simultaneously for both countries, and it is an important instrument for understanding employees' work engagement in the organizations, allowing human resources departments to better use workforces, especially when they are migrants. A total of 524 Brazilian workers and 522 Portuguese workers participated in the study. Confirmatory Factor Analysis, group comparisons, and Reliability estimates were used. The use of workers who were primarily professionals or administrative support, according to ISCO-08, reinforced the need to collect data on other professional occupations. Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptable fit for the UWES-9 original three-factor solution, and a second-order factor structure has been proposed that presented an acceptable fit. Full-scale invariance was obtained between the Portuguese and Brazilian samples, both for the original three-factor first-order and second-order models. Data revealed that Portuguese and Brazilian workers didn't show statistically significant differences in the work engagement dimensions. This version allows for direct comparisons of means and, consequently, for performance of comparative and cross-cultural studies between these two countries.
本文旨在对乌得勒支工作投入量表的国际版本进行修订，并描述同时为巴西和葡萄牙开发的葡萄牙语版UWES-9的心理测量特性、与内部结构相关的效度证据，即维度性、巴西和葡萄牙之间的测量不变性以及分数的可靠性。这是首个同时为两国开发的UWES版本，是了解组织中员工工作投入情况的重要工具，有助于人力资源部门更好地利用劳动力，尤其是当员工为移民时。共有524名巴西员工和522名葡萄牙员工参与了该研究。研究采用了验证性因素分析、组间比较和可靠性估计。根据国际标准职业分类-08（ISCO-08），主要使用专业人员或行政支持人员的数据，这凸显了收集其他职业数据的必要性。验证性因素分析表明，UWES-9最初的三因素解决方案拟合度可接受，并提出了一个二阶因素结构，其拟合度也可接受。对于最初的三因素一阶和二阶模型而言，葡萄牙和巴西样本之间均获得了完全尺度不变性。数据显示，葡萄牙和巴西员工在工作投入维度上没有统计学上的显著差异。该版本允许直接比较均值，从而可以在这两个国家之间进行比较研究和跨文化研究。
