Department of Nursing, Shubun University, Ichinomiya, Japan.
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan.
Work. 2022;73(3):945-959. doi: 10.3233/WOR-210297.
The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is widely used as a psychometric assessment scale to measure work engagement by relative evaluation. Determining standard values for absolute evaluation would make it more useful. The merit of absolute evaluation is that it can offer an objective evaluation to personnel members regardless of their status in the organization.
This study examines the criteria for absolute evaluation of the Japanese version of UWES-9 and creates a database for the evaluation of work engagement.
To examine the evaluation criteria for the total points of UWES-9 for 417 automotive industry workers, responses were validated via a one-way analysis of variance and receiver-operating characteristic analysis, using the scales of "worthwhileness of work" and "level of job satisfaction" in the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire with similar work engagement concepts.
In both scales, the ability to predict was at its highest when divided into the high work engagement group (wherein the total points of UWES-9 are 21 points and above).
In the relative evaluation, 24 points from the average of the total points of UWES-9 is the standard. In the absolute evaluation, the lower standard around 21 points is probable.
Utrecht 工作投入量表(UWES)被广泛用作通过相对评估来衡量工作投入的心理计量评估量表。确定绝对评估的标准值将使其更有用。绝对评估的优点是,它可以为人员提供客观的评估,而不受其在组织中的地位的影响。
本研究检验了日本版 UWES-9 的绝对评估标准,并创建了一个工作投入评估数据库。
为了检验 UWES-9 总分数的评估标准,对 417 名汽车行业工人进行了验证,使用具有相似工作投入概念的简明工作压力问卷中的“工作价值”和“工作满意度水平”两个量表,通过单向方差分析和受试者工作特征分析进行了验证。
在这两个量表中,当分为高工作投入组(UWES-9 的总分数为 21 分及以上)时,预测能力最高。
在相对评估中,UWES-9 总分数的平均值 24 分是标准。在绝对评估中,可能的标准值较低,约为 21 分左右。