Wickramasinghe Nuwan Darshana, Dissanayake Devani Sakunthala, Abeywardena Gihan Sajiwa
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Saliyapura, 50008, Sri Lanka.
Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, 20400, Sri Lanka.
BMC Res Notes. 2018 May 4;11(1):277. doi: 10.1186/s13104-018-3388-4.
The present study was aimed at assessing the validity and the reliability of the Sinhala version of the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale-Student Version (UWES-S) among collegiate cycle students in Sri Lanka.
The 17-item UWES-S was translated to Sinhala and the judgmental validity was assessed by a multi-disciplinary panel of experts. Construct validity of the UWES-S was appraised by using multi-trait scaling analysis and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on data obtained from a sample of 194 grade thirteen students in the Kurunegala district, Sri Lanka. Reliability of the UWES-S was assessed by using internal consistency and test-retest reliability. Except for item 13, all other items showed good psychometric properties in judgemental validity, item-convergent validity and item-discriminant validity. EFA using principal component analysis with Oblimin rotation, suggested a three-factor solution (including vigor, dedication and absorption subscales) explaining 65.4% of the total variance for the 16-item UWES-S (with item 13 deleted). All three subscales show high internal consistency with Cronbach's α coefficient values of 0.867, 0.819, and 0.903 and test-retest reliability was high (p < 0.001). Hence, the Sinhala version of the 16-item UWES-S is a valid and a reliable instrument to assess work engagement among collegiate cycle students in Sri Lanka.
本研究旨在评估乌得勒支工作投入量表学生版（UWES-S）僧伽罗语版本在斯里兰卡大专生中的有效性和可靠性。
将17项的UWES-S翻译成僧伽罗语，并由多学科专家小组评估其判断效度。通过对从斯里兰卡库鲁内格勒区194名十三年级学生样本中获得的数据进行多特质量表分析和探索性因素分析（EFA），对UWES-S的结构效度进行了评估。通过内部一致性和重测信度评估UWES-S的信度。除第13项外，所有其他项目在判断效度、项目收敛效度和项目区分效度方面均表现出良好的心理测量特性。使用主成分分析和斜交旋转的EFA提出了一个三因素解决方案（包括活力、奉献和专注子量表），解释了删除第13项后的16项UWES-S总方差的65.4%。所有三个子量表都显示出较高的内部一致性，克朗巴哈α系数值分别为0.867、0.819和0.903，重测信度也很高（p < 0.001）。因此，16项UWES-S的僧伽罗语版本是评估斯里兰卡大专生工作投入的有效且可靠的工具。
